Rainbow Wahine clinch top-4 seed with 13th win in 14 games
Hawaii senior ahead Saniyah Neverson scored a career-high 19 factors on 8-for-11 capturing and the Rainbow Wahine basketball workforce prolonged their successful streak to a season-high seven games with an 89-56 win over UC Riverside right this moment at SRC Arena in Riverside, Calif.
Hawaii (19-10, 13-6 Big West) clinched a first-round bye in the Big West event with the win and a loss by Cal State Fullerton to UC San Diego.
Junior guard Jovi Lefotu scored a season-high 12 factors off the bench for the Rainbow Wahine, who’ve gained 13 of 14 and gained their third straight recreation towards a workforce they’d misplaced earlier in the season by at the very least 18 factors.
The 89 factors are a season excessive.
Keiara Curtis and Imani Perez added 10 factors apiece and Curtis additionally had six assists and 5 rebounds for Hawaii, which shot 56.5% (35-for-62) from the sphere.
UH closed the second half on an 11-0 run in the ultimate 97 seconds and was by no means threatened once more.
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UC Riverside (10-20, 8-12), which had already clinched the No. 7 seed in the convention event, defeated UH, 65-58, earlier this season in Hawaii.
UH tied a season-high capturing 50% (10-for-20) from the 3-point line.
UC Riverside’s Hannah Wickstrom, who scored 36 factors towards Hawaii in the primary assembly, completed with 14 factors on 5-for-17 capturing with 10 of these factors in the primary half.
The Rainbow Wahine closes the common season at Long Beach State on Saturday at midday.
