Story byThe Honolulu Star-AdvertiserStephen Tsai, The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserSun, January 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM UTC·1 min readAidan Mahaney scored a game-high 17 points to lift the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team to a 77-62 victory over Hawaii today on the UCSB campus. In suffering their ninth consecutive loss in the Thunderdome, the Rainbow Warriors fell to 13-4 overall and 5-2 in the Big West. But UC Irvine’s loss to UC Davis kept the’Bows in a first-place tie with the Anteaters. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe’Bows, who never led, closed to 53-46 with 9 :46 to play. But Miro Little, who had missed six games this season because of a foot injury, hit a step-back 3 to restore the margin to double figures.
