{"id":208611,"date":"2026-03-07T06:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208611\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:07:16","slug":"diaz-leads-long-beach-state-against-hawaii-after-33-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208611\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaz leads Long Beach State against Hawaii after 33-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (9-22, 5-14 Big West<\/a>) at Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (22-7, 14-5 Big West)<\/p>\n

Honolulu; Sunday, 12 a.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits Hawaii after Rob Diaz III<\/a> scored 33 points in Long Beach State’s 76-70 overtime loss to the UC Davis Aggies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Warriors have gone 16-2 at home. Hawaii is fourth in the Big West scoring 80.1 points while shooting 46.5% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 5-14 against Big West opponents. Long Beach State is 2-15 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

Hawaii is shooting 46.5% from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points lower than the 47.2% Long Beach State allows to opponents. Long Beach State averages 6.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 5.7 per game Hawaii allows.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. Hawaii won 89-82 in the last matchup on Jan. 31. Quandre Bullock led Hawaii with 26 points, and Shaquil Bender<\/a> led Long Beach State with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Isaac Johnson is scoring 13.6 points per game with 5.7 rebounds and 1.0 assist for the Rainbow Warriors. Bullock is averaging 16.0 points and 6.1 rebounds while shooting 41.9% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Gavin Sykes<\/a> is scoring 18.8 points per game and averaging 3.0 rebounds for the Beach. Bender is averaging 13.9 points and 2.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rainbow Warriors: 7-3, averaging 79.6 points, 33.4 rebounds, 12.0 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Beach: 1-9, averaging 73.7 points, 30.7 rebounds, 11.9 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.6 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (9-22, 5-14 Big West) at Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (22-7, 14-5 Big West) Honolulu; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4365,4213,80631,29643,131,133,132,26043,29642,69616],"class_list":["post-208611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-big-west","tag-college-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-beach","tag-rob-diaz-iii","tag-shaquil-bender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208611","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=208611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}