{"id":3535,"date":"2026-02-08T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:37:15","slug":"warriors-hold-off-long-beach-state-89-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/warriors-hold-off-long-beach-state-89-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors hold off Long Beach State, 89-82"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dre Bullock, shown in a game earlier this season, scored a game-high 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds Saturday to help Hawai’i defeat Long Beach State on the road, 89-82. (Chris Kadooka file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Salvaging a road trip split and — more importantly — staying close in the race for first in the Big West Conference standings, Hawai’i held off Long Beach State, 89-82, in Saturday matinee action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crowd of 1,368 at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid watched Dre Bullock score a game-high 26 points and grab nine rebounds and Isaac “Big Fish” Johnson add 19 points and three boards as the Warriors improved to 16-5 overall and 8-3 in league play. Shaquil Bender and Petar Majstorovic each scored 22 points to lead The Beach, which fell to 8-15, 4-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After UH took an early 6-5 lead, Long Beach State answered with a 3-pointer by Bender to ignite a 17-7 run to put The Beach in front, 22-13, with 11:19 remaining in the first half. The Warriors rallied back with a 13-2 surge and took a 26-24 lead after two free throws by Harry Rouhliadeff with 6:47 left, and ended the period with an 8-0 run capped by Bullock’s layup right before the horn to take a 36-31 lead into the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawai’i held onto it throughout the second half, extrending the margin to 68-53 after Johnson’s 3-pointer with 8:16 remaining, although The Beach did threaten with a late 12-3 run that closed it to 83-82 on two free throws by Majstorovic with 54 seconds on the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Bullock answered with a jumper 26 seconds later to make it 85-82, and Long Beach State suffered a turnover and miss on its next two possessions, and Bullock and Johnson converted four free throws down the stretch to close out the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

UC Irvine 9-2
UC Santa Barbara 8-3
HAWAI’I 8-3<\/strong>
UC Davis 6-5
Cal State Northridge 6-5
Cal State Fullerton 5-6
UC San Diego 5-6
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 5-6
Long Beach State 4-7
UC Riverside 3-8
Cal State Bakersfield 2-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salvaging a road trip split and — more importantly — staying close in the race for first in the Big West Conference standings, Hawai’i held off Long Beach State, 89-82, in Saturday matinee action. A crowd of 1,368 at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid watched Dre Bullock score a […]<\/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\/3535"}],"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=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}