{"id":209236,"date":"2026-03-07T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:24:28","slug":"hawaii-hosts-long-beach-state-after-diazs-33-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209236\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii hosts Long Beach State after Diaz\u2019s 33-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State Beach (9-22, 5-14 Big West) at Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (22-7, 14-5 Big West) Honolulu; Sunday, 12 a.m.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State Beach (9-22, 5-14 Big West) at Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (22-7, 14-5 Big West)<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu; Sunday, 12 a.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Rainbow Warriors -13.5; over\/under is 148.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State faces Hawaii after Rob Diaz III scored 33 points in Long Beach State\u2019s 76-70 overtime loss to the UC Davis Aggies.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors are 16-2 on their home court. Hawaii is second in the Big West in team defense, allowing 69.7 points while holding opponents to 41.1% shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach are 5-14 against Big West opponents. Long Beach State has a 2-15 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n<p>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 has shot at a 45.5% rate from the field this season, 4.4 percentage points higher than the 41.1% shooting opponents of Hawaii have averaged.<\/p>\n<p>The teams square off for the second time this season in Big West play. Hawaii won the last meeting 89-82 on Jan. 31. Quandre Bullock scored 26 points points to help lead the Rainbow Warriors to the win.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Hunter Erickson averages 1.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Rainbow Warriors, scoring 8.2 points while shooting 35.0% from beyond the arc. Bullock is averaging 13.6 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.6 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Sykes is scoring 18.8 points per game with 3.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Beach. Shaquil Bender is averaging 13.9 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/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,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-209236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209236","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=209236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}