{"id":156458,"date":"2026-01-30T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:29:10","slug":"long-beach-state-takes-on-hawaii-in-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156458\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State takes on Hawaii in conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (15-5, 7-3 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (8-14, 4-6 Big West)<\/p>\n

Long Beach, California; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Hawaii faces Long Beach State in Big West action Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 7-4 at home. Long Beach State is 3-7 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Warriors are 7-3 against conference opponents. Hawaii ranks seventh in the Big West with 14.6 assists per game led by Aaron Hunkin-Claytor averaging 3.9.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State makes 45.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.4 percentage points higher than Hawaii has allowed to its opponents (39.4%). Hawaii averages 80.2 points per game, 3.9 more than the 76.3 Long Beach State gives up to opponents.<\/p>\n

The Beach and Rainbow Warriors square off Saturday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gavin Sykes is averaging 18.2 points for the Beach. Petar Majstorovic is averaging 15.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Hunter Erickson is shooting 33.8% from beyond the arc with 1.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Rainbow Warriors, while averaging 8.2 points and 3.4 assists. Harry Rouhliadeff is shooting 56.0% and averaging 12.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Iowa<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"UCLA<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 5-5, averaging 76.0 points, 29.9 rebounds, 15.3 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Rainbow Warriors: 7-3, averaging 80.3 points, 35.6 rebounds, 15.8 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.0 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (15-5, 7-3 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (8-14, 4-6 Big West) Long Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[76562,7,4213,1327,9222,29643,76561,2289,13623,14503,131,133,132,24795,71825,127],"class_list":["post-156458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-aaron-hunkin-claytor","tag-california","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-harry-rouhliadeff","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","tag-hi-state-wire","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}