While UCLA basketball lore is built largely around John Wooden’s conceptual “Pyramid of Success,” Long Beach State prides itself on the success built inside its own Walter Pyramid.
Which … is literally a pyramid.
Hawai’i will again get a close-up look inside the odd-shaped venue at 2 p.m. (HST) Saturday, when the Warriors face rival Long Beach State in a key Big West Conference showdown. UH is 18-8 overall and 9-5 in league play, good for fourth place. But Long Beach State is looking right over the Warriors’ shoulder at 15-12, 9-6.
And historically, the 49ers have been tough to beat at home in the 4,000-seat Walter Pyramid, one of nation’s most unique arenas in a conference full of mostly oversized generic-looking high school gyms.