{"id":156561,"date":"2026-01-30T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:37:10","slug":"hawaii-hosts-long-beach-state-after-jones-browns-29-point-showing-las-vegas-sun-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156561\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii hosts Long Beach State after Jones-Brown&#8217;s 29-point showing &#8211;\nLas Vegas Sun News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"datePublished\">Published Friday, Jan. 30, 2026 | 1:43 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State Beach (3-17, 2-8 Big West) at Hawaii Rainbow Wahine (11-9, 5-5 Big West)<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu; Sunday, 12 a.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits Hawaii after JaQuoia Jones-Brown scored 29 points in Long Beach State&#8217;s 75-72 victory against the UC Riverside Highlanders.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine are 8-5 in home games. Hawaii ranks third in the Big West in rebounding with 34.2 rebounds. Imani Perez leads the Rainbow Wahine with 6.5 boards.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach are 2-8 in Big West play. Long Beach State ranks seventh in the Big West with 32.1 rebounds per game led by Jones-Brown averaging 7.7.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii&#8217;s average of 6.7 made 3-pointers per game is 1.4 fewer made shots on average than the 8.1 per game Long Beach State allows. Long Beach State averages 6.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 fewer makes per game than Hawaii allows.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine and Beach meet Sunday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Keiara Curtis averages 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Rainbow Wahine, scoring 9.6 points while shooting 42.3% from beyond the arc. Bailey Flavell is averaging 14.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kennan Ka is averaging 6.2 points for the Beach. Jones-Brown is averaging 15.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Rainbow Wahine: 6-4, averaging 61.8 points, 32.4 rebounds, 11.1 assists, 6.2 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 39.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 56.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Beach: 3-7, averaging 58.5 points, 32.2 rebounds, 13.9 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 36.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.8 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by<br \/>\n                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a><br \/>\n                                         and data from<br \/>\n                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a><br \/>\n                                        .\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Friday, Jan. 30, 2026 | 1:43 a.m. Long Beach State Beach (3-17, 2-8 Big West) at Hawaii&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-156561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156561","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=156561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}