A homestand that might have created more questions than it answered came to a mercifully quick end Saturday. Ninth-ranked Hawaii took San Jose State’s best punch and proceeded to knock the Spartans out, 25-21, 25-8, 25-19, in Western Athletic Conference volleyball.

The Rainbow Wahine (15-1, 5-0 WAC) leave Monday night with a 10-match winning streak. They also extended their NCAA-best conference winning streak to 46 before a crowd of 5,489 at Stan Sheriff Center.

The Wahine have not lost a WAC regular-season match since Oct. 12, 2008, when they were swept by New Mexico State. UH plays at NMSU on Wednesday in a match that will be broadcast live on ESPNU.

The Aggies (16-4, 5-0) are also unbeaten in the WAC. The match begins at 4 p.m. Hawaii time.

The Wahine can’t wait to get there and, after two weeks of very little drama, get a better sense of who they really are.

"It will be more challenging for sure," UH coach Dave Shoji said. "I think we’re all looking forward to that. We need the challenge and we need to play a good team on the road and see how far we’ve come since mid-September."

Senior All-American Kanani Danielson, who came up a kill short of her 10th double-double Saturday, has clearly been anticipating this match.

"There’s no way they should think they can get us now, later or in the WAC championship," she said. "I’m trying to make sure they don’t remember what went on before. We are going to try and annihilate on the road, on their homecourt, before a bunch of fans heckling against us."

The Wahine posed the only serious challenge to themselves the last three matches as they experimented with a new lineup featuring freshmen Kalei Adolpho and Lizzie Blake.

Against SJSU (6-11, 1-3), the experiment was inconclusive. Blake had 14 digs, but her passing was erratic. Adolpho didn’t get her first block until deep into the third set, and only saw four sets.

Emily Hartong, moved from the middle to the right, had two kills in the first three serves. All she managed the rest of the night was five digs. When Shoji rested her in the final set, Chanteal Satele and Kaela Goodman were a combined 8-for-11 on the right, with Goodman getting a career-high three kills.

"It’s really hard to figure this out," Shoji said. "There’s no gauge right now to see where you are. I told the team we need to have better practices. Practices have to be more competitive than the games for us to get better."

The Spartans did their best, or close to it, in the opening set. Down 11-4, they found a rhythm with Kiely Pieper serving and Hawaii high school graduates Brianna Amian (Moanalua), Alex Akana and Caitlin Andrade (both Kamehameha) exasperating the UH defense.

"I really admired the effort they put out there," Danielson said. "They had nice digs, the middles were really moving the ball around. Caitlin knew exactly who to go to.

"We pulled it off, but once again it wasn’t one of those dominant performances you would expect from a high-ranked team."

Hawaii was scared straight in Set 2, and San Jose lost its swagger. Blake served eight straight, with Jane Croson — who had a match-high 15 kills — and Brittany Hewitt getting the first two blocks of the night.

It was the most one-sided set of the season, and Shoji substituted liberally in the third. When it ended, after 86 minutes, Hawaii had its 41st straight win over the Spartans, who have also lost 33 consecutive sets to UH.

"It’s just hard for us to look sharp," Shoji admitted. "The play is ragged. It’s not easy to look good in games like these. It’s hard to run things or get any kind of rhythm. I was a little frustrated with our team, but when I think about it, they really have no incentive. We talk about the big picture, but on any given night it’s hard to go as hard as you need to go to get better."