Hawaii freshman guard Keiara Curtis scored 14 of her game-high 16 points in the second half and the Rainbow Wahine cruised to a 74-39 win over Long Beach State to end their regular season today at LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.<\/p>\n
Saniyah Neverson added 15 points, seven rebounds and a career-high five steals and Imani Perez had 13 points on six shot attempts with eight rebounds and two blocks.<\/p>\n
Hawaii improved to 20-10 to reach the 20-win mark for the third straight season and finishes 14-6 in Big West play with 14 wins in its last 15 games.<\/p>\n
The Rainbow Wahine, who will be the No. 4 seed in the Credit Union 1 Big West Women\u2019s Basketball Championship next week in Henderson, Nev., have won eight in a row.<\/p>\n
Hawaii allowed a season-low 39 points to the Beach (5-25, 4-16), who were held to 26.8% shooting (15-for-56) from the field.<\/p>\n
The Rainbow Wahine held the Beach scoreless for more than six minutes in the first quarter during a 17-0 run that put the game away just after it started.<\/p>\n
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UH\u2019s first game in the BWC tournament will be Thursday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawaii freshman guard Keiara Curtis scored 14 of her game-high 16 points in the second half and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-209731","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\/209731","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=209731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}