The streak is over.

The University of Hawaii women’s basketball team lost a home conference game Saturday for the first time since Feb. 18, 2023. Since then, the Wahine had won 13 Big West games here — and made two trips to the NCAA Tournament.

But the Rainbow Wahine — preseason favorites to win the conference championship again — stumbled out of the gate in front of 1,762 at SimpliFi Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center, where the Wahine previously seemed to have simplified the art of winning at home.

But the same Big West opponent that last beat UH here did it again this time. Long Beach State needed overtime, but it outlasted Hawaii, 73-69.

“We’re going to bounce back from this,” coach Laura Beeman said after UH fell to 5-3 overall.

Savannah Tucker scored six of her game-high 23 points in overtime to lead the Beach to a 2-0 Big West record and 5-3 overall.

Patricia Chung hit her fourth 3-pointer of the game and JaQuoia Jones-Brown made a clutch layup to supplement Tucker’s 6-for-6 from the line in OT.

Meanwhile, only Lily Wahinekapu scored for UH, with seven of her team-high 20 points. She missed two of four free throws in overtime.

“Some tough misses at the line. (But) missing those free throws wasn’t why we lost the game,” Beeman said.

The coach noted how the Beach out-did the Rainbows significantly in some key areas, like 38-28 scoring in the paint, 14-10 on second-chance opportunities, and 18-3 on fast=break points.

Wahinekapu acknowledged that the Wahine were outplayed for much of the game.

“We need to lock in better,” the senior point guard said. “We talked about it, but we didn’t take care of business.”

UH was never out of the game, though, until the final few seconds of OT. There were 15 lead changes and 10 ties.

“It was an up-and-down game,” Wahinekapu said.

Hawaii came back from a 52-47 deficit early in the fourth quarter. MeiLani McBee started the rally with two 3-pointers, and Jovi Lefotu put the ‘Bows ahead 59-58 with 3:21 left with back-to-back buckets off of LBSU turnovers.

After Wahinekapu upped the lead to three with a floater in the lane two minutes later, UH could have sealed it with free-throw shooting. But Lefotu made just one of four, and Jones-Brown made two key short-range shots to force overtime.

Ritorya Tamilo scored 14 points and led UH with nine rebounds and six blocked shots.

Tucker scored eight points as Long Beach State led 18-14 after the first quarter.

Wahinekapu helped UH tie it 28-all at halftime with a 15-footer and a 3-pointer in the second quarter.

LBSU’s Chung made all three of her first-half 3-point shots and was game-high at the break with nine points and finished with 12.

Jada Crawshaw and Jones-Brown each added 10 points for Long Beach State.

Hawaii plays its next game Dec. 16, at home against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.