{"id":3466,"date":"2026-01-17T00:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:26:20","slug":"warriors-roll-past-cal-poly-in-86-66-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/warriors-roll-past-cal-poly-in-86-66-road-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors roll past Cal Poly in 86-66 road win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawai’i forward Gytis Nmeiksa, shown scoring against UC Davis in a home game earlier this season, scored a game-high 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds Thursday night to help the Warriors improve to 5-1 in the Big West Conference. (Chris Kadooka photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Beating Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at its own game, Hawai’i sped past the Mustangs, 86-66, Thursday night for a Big West Conference men’s basketball road victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crowd of 2,186 at the Mott Athletics Center watched Gytis Nmeiksa score a game-high 21 points and grab 11 rebounds and Dre Bullock add 20 points as the Warriors improved to 13-3 overall and 5-1 in league play, tied for first place with UC Irvine (5-1). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamad Mousa scored 17 points and Peter Bandelj added 11 points and five boards for the Mustangs, who fell to 7-12, 3-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cal Poly actually led, 15-14, after Mousa’s 3-pointer eight minutes into the game, but Isaac Finlinson answered with a layup and UH later opened the lead to 35-28 before closing it to 41-35 by halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Warriors opened the second half with a 13-5 run to go ahead, 54-40, on Hunter Erickson’s 3-pointer four minutes in. The Mustangs could not get closer than 11 points the rest of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawai’i continues its road trip with a game at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday. Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. HST, with the game available on livestream via ESPN+ and on radio via ESPN Honolulu 1420AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big West Conference Standings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAWAI’I 5-1<\/strong>
UC Irvine 5-1
Cal State Northridge 4-3
UC San Diego 3-3
UC Davis 3-3
UC Santa Barbara 3-3
Long Beach State 3-3
Cal State Fullerton 3-4
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 3-4
Cal State Bakersfield 2-5
UC Riverside 1-5
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Beating Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at its own game, Hawai’i sped past the Mustangs, 86-66, Thursday night for a Big West Conference men’s basketball road victory. A crowd of 2,186 at the Mott Athletics Center watched Gytis Nmeiksa score a game-high 21 points and grab 11 rebounds and Dre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}