UC Riverside guard Chance Murray converted a tough hanging basket, plus the foul, landed and screamed a prolonged “annnnnnnd-onnnnnnneeee!” at Hawaii guard Sheriff Drammeh.

Murray and the last-place Highlanders stole the Rainbow Warriors’ thunder at the Stan Sheriff Center once again, in the process extending UH’s losing streak to four games with a 64-60 Wednesday night stunner.

“We’re going through it at a high level,” a dispirited Eran Ganot said at the postgame interview table, then repeated it. “I don’t know if I’ve felt this at any point before.”

Riverside, which arrived on Oahu minus its best player and on a 10-game losing streak, hit a series of clutch shots late to steal back the lead and pick up its first Big West win of the season (1-8, 6-17 overall). It was the third straight year the struggling Highlanders won in Honolulu.

“I don’t know,” said UCR interim coach Justin Bell, who took over the program for the fired Dennis Cutts just before conference play. “I don’t know. I wish I knew the answer. I think we come in here and this is a different atmosphere from any other Big West school. So I think we come in here with a little bit of the us-against-the-island mentality. And that’s kind of paid off for us. I don’t know if that’s it, but I’m trying to give you something.”

First, his team took life from a staggered group of ’Bows as well as the 3,014 in attendance.

UH (13-9, 4-5 BWC) got off to a slow start with a brand-new starting lineup — Ganot decided to shuffle the deck following his team’s recent difficulties — but still managed to lead by seven points with 10 minutes left.

The Highlanders seized the initiative from there. Murray’s aforementioned play put his team up for the first time in the half, 50-49. UH went back up three but a Murray 3 with 2:30 left gave the visitors the lead for good.

Riverside forward Menno Dijkstra (team-high 17 points) buried a top-arc 3-pointer for a five-point lead with a minute left and DJ Sylvester (12) added another with 15.4 seconds left. Brocke Stepteau answered both with a 3 of his own, but it was too late. UH took a foul on Dijkstra and he made both with 6.2 seconds left to seal the outcome.

“I don’t think we took them lightly. We just gotta look at ourselves in the mirror,” Stepteau said. “We don’t have any energy, we’re not playing for one another. We don’t have any passion, any joy.”

UH, which was in first place a little more than two weeks ago, resembled a team in free fall. Ganot, whose team matched the longest slide of his three-year career, was searching for answers soon after picking up the first technical foul of his Manoa tenure.

“I gotta own that and make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he said.

Forwards Samuta Avea and Zigmars Raimo made their first career starts, while Jack Purchase returned to the first five for the first time since the fourth game of the season. Stepteau and Leland Green comprised the backcourt. Captains Mike Thomas and Gibson Johnson and point guard Drew Buggs shifted to the bench.

The Rainbows did not respond, trailing most of the first half and getting to 30-all at halftime on a Green buzzer-beater.

Ganot said, “I thought the guys who were in there deserved to be in there. … It’s been coming, and maybe some things put it over the top. Little things can become big things.”

Thomas scored a game-high 18 points in his first reserve appearance in 45 games going back to the 2015-16 season. Stepteau added 11 and no one else had more than seven.

“The entire game, start to finish,” Thomas said as to where it got away. “Discipline, defense, things like that. … We’re failing to execute right now.” He said he was not bothered by the lineup change.

UH won the rebounding battle 40-26 but shot 33.3 percent and committed 17 turnovers, while allowing 10 Highlander 3s. UH was sometimes slowed by UCR’s zone defense and second-half press.

On a single first-half possession, UH shot five 3-pointers and missed them all.

“We had some great shots. Wide open 3s, some shots around the rim,” Ganot said. “I think we’ve been a little out of sorts. I believe in our guys and the potential in them. I think we gotta get it out.”

The Rainbows host another struggling team in Cal State Northridge (5-19, 2-8) on Saturday.