After two nights of aesthetic play, the University of Hawaii basketball team absorbed a culture shock in Sunday’s final round of the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic.

Before 2,831 in the Stan Sheriff Center, North Texas dominated all phases — offense, defense and floor burns — in a 68-51 mugging in the Stan Sheriff Center.

In a somber postgame news conference, UH coach Eran Ganot described the 40 minutes as “a punch to our culture in how we play.”

The Rainbow Warriors could not slow the Mean Green’s spread-and-shred offense, which was without their best player, injured guard Roosevelt Smart.

UNT opened with a three-guard lineup, with only one starter taller than 6 feet 4. To counter the size disadvantage, the Green used a sagging defense that fronted or doubled the UH post. With no clear path, the lane turned into a dead end.

“They made it a little difficult to get in,” UH point guard Drew Buggs said. “When we got in, we had pretty good success. Zigmars (Raimo, UHs starting center), did a really good job battling inside.We had to do a better job getting inside.”

The Green scored the first seven points, then built leads of 12-2, 17-4 and, with 9:15 left in the first half, 20-7.

Wearing the “0” jersey, Mean Green point guard Ryan Woolridge was oh, oh, so good. Woolridge often would set up in the wide wing, then drive to the rim or pitch to an open shooter. If neither plan was workable, he would circle out and start again.

“I try to do my part,” Woolridge said. “I try to do a little bit of everything.”

Woolridge finished with 12 points, eight rebounds, six assists and four steals. He would pick up a UH point guard, then drop to defend the post player. He played all 40 minutes.

“I’m used to it,” Woolridge said. “I played almost 40 minutes every game last year.”

Woolridge was named the tournament’s most outstanding player.

“MVP doesn’t mean too much to me,” Woolridge said. “I wanted the team to win, and go out 3-0.”

By sweeping the tournament, the Mean Green improved to 4-0 overall.

The ’Bows fell to 2-1 — and into a self-analysis stage.

The ’Bows shot 20.8 percent in the first half, finishing with 36.5-percent accuracy (19-of-52) for the game. They were 6-for-24 from behind the 3-point arc. Their two best outside shooters — Jack Purchase and Eddie Stansberry — combined for three 3s.

“Obviously, it starts with me,” Ganot said. “I didn’t get our team ready to go. We were outclassed in every area. I don’t know if we’ve had a 40-minute, basically, beatdown like we did today in every facet of the game. We never really made anything happen.”

Ganot tried several combinations — double posts, three guards, two wings — with little success, especially on defense. UNT was able to sneak through for layups or find open shooters on around-the-horn passes.

“We have to start with defense,” Raimo said. “We’re going to make our shots, we’re going to miss our shots. That’s basketball. We have to bring more energy to the defense. I felt they did a pretty good job moving the ball, screening out guys, flares — and we didn’t do a good job countering it.”

Ganot said: “To be honest, they completely out-toughed us. When we missed some decent looks early, it affected the rest of our offense. And we got back to something we hadn’t seen in a while. We were hesitant, passing up shots, not talking, clearly not defending.”