Noel Coleman scored 14 points and JoVon McClanahan added 13 points tonight to help Hawai’i stave off visiting CSUN, 58-51, in Big West Conference men’s basketball action.
A Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday crowd of 2,739 in SimpliFi Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched Bernardo da Silva added 11 points and Samuta Avea 10 points as the Warriors improved to 14-4 overall and 5-1 in league play. Dionte Bostick scored a game-high 21 points and Dearon Tucker added 10 points for the Matadors, who fell to 3-15 and 0-7.
UH led, 33-17, at halftime after holding CSUN to 21 percent (6 of 28) shooting from the field and out-rebounding the Matadors, 22 to 13.