Hawaii guard Brandon Spearman offered a rueful laugh about the staggering numbers and outcome, but not much more.

On Saturday, UC Davis dealt Hawaii its first home loss in Big West Conference play, a 93-82 setback in which sophomore guard Corey Hawkins welcomed UH into its most difficult part of the league schedule — its next four are on the road — by scoring a Davis-record 40. Hawkins was a point off the highest total by any player at the Stan Sheriff Center.

UCD hit 14 of its 16 3-pointers in a 54-point first half and UH was in catch-up mode the rest of the way. Hawkins needed only 14 shots for his 40 because of an obscene 8-for-9 effort on 3s in combination with a 12-for-12 onslaught at the foul line in the final two minutes.

"It was real crazy. I really don’t even want to talk about the game, honestly," said Spearman. "You seen the game. It was just one of those games. They were on fire. Nothing we could do."

Spearman’s sentiment was understandable, but there were a few things, actually. It was little surprise that the Rainbow Warriors focused heavily on defense on Monday in their first practice after giving up the most points at the Sheriff under third-year coach Gib Arnold.

Aggies point guard Paolo Mancasola penetrated the UH defense at will and dished to open shooters once help arrived down low. He had 11 assists.

"We ran into a buzz saw. … You can’t prepare against a guy who has a super-hot hand," Arnold said of Hawkins. "But you gotta see how he got there, and how he got there was on offensive-rebound kick-outs, in transition, and penetrate and kick. Those are how he scored all his 3s. So the one thing you can stop is the penetration, if you work on it defensively. We worked on that today."

Third-place UH (10-8, 4-3 BWC) has another practice at home today before departing for California in the evening for road games at Cal Poly (7-9, 3-3) on Thursday and UC Santa Barbara (7-10, 3-3) on Saturday. After that, the ‘Bows will return home for two days before playing two more on the road.

Spearman (9.8 ppg), a junior who averaged double-figure scoring until recently, could see increased time this week on the wings. Senior Hauns Brereton missed Saturday’s game with a bruised, swollen knee and freshman Brandon Jawato was limited with a hip injury.

"I hope so," Arnold said of a possible Brereton return this week. "He got an MRI (Sunday) night and we’re waiting for it to be read. … He told me that it does feel a little better.

"Jawato’s more day to day. We’re still trying to figure out what it is."

Freshman Ozren Pavlovic continued to practice at point guard after getting his first career start against UCD and splitting time with senior Jace Tavita at the position. Pavlovic had eight points on 3-for-9 shooting, no assists and two turnovers in 20 minutes. Tavita, the BWC assists leader (5.1 per game) went scoreless in 16 minutes, but had six dimes and no turnovers.

With 16 points and 11 rebounds on Saturday, senior center Vander Joaquim (1,023) moved into 13th on the UH career scoring list, passing Reggie Cross (1,013) and Bobby Nash (1,022). He vaulted past former UH coach Bob Nash (721) for third on the career rebounding list at 723.