The University of Hawai’i women’s basketball team will face CSUN on Saturday, February 14, at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. The game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. local time and will be broadcast on Spectrum Sports channels 12 and 1012, with radio coverage available on ESPN Honolulu. Fans can also follow live stats through HawaiiAthletics.com and purchase tickets via etickethawaii.com.
Hawai’i enters the matchup after a 61-54 win over CSU Bakersfield, marking their fifth consecutive home victory and seventh win in their last eight games. The Rainbow Wahine currently hold a record of 13-10 overall and are sixth in the Big West standings with a conference record of 7-6. After starting conference play with five losses, the team has gone 7-1 in its last eight games.
Freshman guard Bailey Flavell leads Hawai’i with an average of 13.7 points per game and is positioned to become the first freshman since the 2010-11 season to lead the team in scoring average. Freshman guard Keiara Curtis has reached double figures in scoring in eleven of her last thirteen games, averaging eleven points per game during conference play.
Senior forward Imani Perez anchors the team’s defense, leading the Big West Conference and ranking thirty-third nationally with an average of 1.77 blocked shots per game. She also ranks second in total blocks within the conference this season. Sophomore center Ritorya Tamilo has recorded fourteen blocks over her past five games, placing her fifth in the Big West for blocks per game while shooting over sixty-one percent from the field across her last three contests.
As a team, Hawai’i leads both the Big West Conference and ranks sixth nationally by averaging just over six blocks per game—on pace to surpass their program record set during the 2004-05 season. Senior forward Saniyah Neverson is contributing ten points per contest during conference play while maintaining one of the top field-goal percentages in league action.
Defensively, Hawai’i holds opponents to thirty-six percent shooting from the field—second-best in their conference and seventeenth nationally for field-goal percentage defense.
Head coach Laura Beeman was recently inducted into Mt. San Antonio College Athletics Hall of Fame after achieving a record of three hundred ninety wins over fifteen seasons at Mt. SAC.
Saturday’s event will include early Lunar New Year celebrations presented by Coke as sponsor; festivities feature lion dancing throughout Bankoh Arena and t-shirt giveaways following Rainbow Wahine three-pointers made during play. Additionally, fans have an opportunity to win prizes through Coke’s “Tell Terry V Lucky Seat” contest.
The upcoming matchup marks the thirty-second meeting between Hawai’i and CSUN since their series began in January 1983; Hawai’i leads all-time meetings twenty-to-eleven and has won ten straight against CSUN dating back to February 2020.
CSUN enters Saturday’s contest with an overall record of eight wins and fourteen losses (4-9 Big West). Angie Ned serves as head coach for her second season with a twelve-and-thirty-nine career mark at CSUN so far.
CSUN stands out as second-best among Big West teams for both blocked shots (3.9 per game) behind only Hawai’i’s rate (6.2), as well as rebounds (nearly forty per game) led by Jite Gbemuotor’s average of nearly eight boards each outing. Offensively, they rank near national leaders for three-point attempts (27.5) and makes (eight) per contest; Rita Nazário leads them with just over ten points scored each night.
The most recent meeting between these teams occurred on January twenty-fourth when Hawai’i secured a comeback victory thanks to Bailey Flavell’s seventeen points—including a decisive seventeen-point run bridging two quarters—to defeat CSUN at Premier America Credit Union Arena.
