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GAME NOTES: The cellar dwellers in the Western Athletic Conference, the Hawaii Warriors try to halt an ugly nine-game slide tonight as they host the Nevada Wolf Pack at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Hawaii has won a total of just two conference games in 13 chances, the most recent of which was a 68-67 decision over San Jose State at home back on January 17th. Most recently the team hosted Utah State on Thursday night and was held down in a 61-50 final. The loss was the ninth in a row and the 11th in 12 tries for the Warriors who will be shooting for their first road win of 2009-10 next week when they square off against both Boise State and Idaho on the mainland.

As for the Wolf Pack, winners of four straight conference bouts, they worked their way back into the win column on Thursday night with an 83-79 victory versus San Jose State on their way out to the island. Nevada is third in the conference standings heading into the weekend with a 9-4 record.

Nevada won the first meeting of the season last month in Reno by a final of 66-60, which means the Pack now leads the all-time series by a count of 17-9.

Even though he shot just 1-of-6 at the free-throw line in the meeting, Brandon Fields responded with 23 points and five rebounds as he and the Pack shook off the 35 points scored by SJSU's Adrian Oliver in the four-point decision. Luke Babbitt tacked on 21 points, five boards and five assists, followed by Armon Johnson and Joey Shaw with 18 and 14 points, respectively. Over the course of 13 conference games this season Babbitt, who has shown that he can stretch defenses with his 43.6 percent three-point shooting over 13 games, is averaging almost a double-double with 23.8 points and 9.3 rebounds per contest. The big man also has a knack for handling the ball in the open floor, yet he has rewarded Nevada with just 29 assists to this point. Johnson (16.4 ppg) is responsible for a team-best 79 dishes in conference action, almost three times as many assists as any of his teammates in such games.

Just five days earlier, the Warriors had allowed Cal Poly to put up a staggering 102 points at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, so holding league-leading Utah State to just 61 points was certainly a moral victory if nothing else. Even though Hawaii had a mere 50 points, four players scored in double figures beginning with Hiram Thompson and his 13 points, followed by Adhar Mayen and Brandon Adams 12 points apiece and Roderick Flemings 11 points on a mere 4-of-11 shooting from the field. Thompson, the only player for Hawaii to have started all 13 conference games, has shot 40.9 percent behind the three-point line in those meetings but just 33.7 percent from the floor overall which is hard to figure out. Flemings is tops in scoring versus WAC foes with his 15.9 ppg, but his 7-of-37 (.189) accuracy behind the three-point line is nothing to be proud of and has, subsequently, brought the entire team down to only 26 percent out on the perimeter.

Hawaii has been playing with a short bench, so trying to keep up with an athletic group like the Wolf Pack, who always look to run the floor, will not be an easy task.