{"id":3505,"date":"2026-01-26T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:17:20","slug":"warriors-deny-cal-state-northridge-89-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/warriors-deny-cal-state-northridge-89-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors deny Cal State Northridge, 89-68"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawai’i center Isaac “Big Fish” Johnson slams home two of his team-high 18 points Saturday night to help the Warriors sweep this week’s homestand and improve to 15-4 overall and 7-2 in the Big West Conference. (Chris Kadooka photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Protecting home court again in Big West Conference play, Hawai’i denied visiting Cal State Northridge, 89-68, Saturday night to sweep this week’s two-game homestand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An announced crowd of 6,025 (tickets issued) in BankOh Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched Isaac “Big Fish” Johnson score a team-high 18 points with seven rebounds and Gytis Nmeiksa add 16 points and six boards as the Warriors improved to 15-4 overall and 7-2 in league. Larry Hughes II scored a game-high 19 points and Mahmoud Fofana added 14 points for the Matadors, who fell to 11-10, 4-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a competitive first half ended with UH ahead, 40-34, CSUN quickly closed it to 40-37 on Hughes’ 3-pointer just 13 seconds into the second half. But Dre Bullock answered with a jumper 29 seconds later to ignite a 17-4 run capped by Hunter Erickson’s layup to stretch the lead to 57-41 with 15:42 remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Josiah Davis scored on a layup to close it to 62-50 four minutes later, Isaiah Kerr slammed home a fast-break dunk to start an 11-3 surge culminating in Nmeiksa’s free throw which pushed the lead to 73-53 with 8:19 left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Matadors could not get closer than 17 points the rest of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More details to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

HAWAI’I 7-2<\/strong>
UC Irvine 7-2
UC Santa Barbara 6-3
UC San Diego 5-4
UC Davis 5-4
Cal State Fullerton 5-5
Long Beach State 4-5
Cal State Northridge 4-5
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 3-6
Cal State Bakersfield 2-7
UC Riverside 2-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protecting home court again in Big West Conference play, Hawai’i denied visiting Cal State Northridge, 89-68, Saturday night to sweep this week’s two-game homestand. An announced crowd of 6,025 (tickets issued) in BankOh Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched Isaac “Big Fish” Johnson score a team-high 18 points with […]<\/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\/3505"}],"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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}