Hawaii point guard Roderick Bobbitt did more than lead the Rainbow Warriors to a rousing third-place finish in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic.

By scoring 30 or more points in back-to-back games against No. 3 Oklahoma and Auburn, the senior co-captain joined some pretty elite company in program history.

Only two other Rainbows reached the 30-point mark in consecutive contests in UH annals: Gavin Smith in 1977 and Anthony Harris in 1995. Those two players hold different forms of the program single-season scoring record.

Making it even more impressive, Bobbitt is not known as a shoot-first player. Last year’s national steals leader and Big West Defensive Player of the Year never came close to filling it up quite like that in his two-year UH career, with just two 20-point games to his name.

“It’s nice,” Bobbitt said after leading UH to a comeback win over Auburn, 79-67, on Christmas Day. “The win is better.”

The normally expressionless Bobbitt gave a rare chuckle.

“I’m excited we got a win, a huge win, over an SEC team, under Bruce Pearl who has them play extremely hard,” he said. “Just proud of my guys with the W.”

It made for a poignant moment for a team hammered with sanctions by the NCAA on Tuesday for the actions of former coach Gib Arnold and a disconnect between the program and the UH administration. UH was slapped with a postseason ban for the 2016-17 season, three years of probation, two docked scholarships for the next two years, and more.

Yet UH (9-2) still has something to play for this season under new coach Eran Ganot and is off to its best start through 11 games since 2004. The Rainbows have two more nonconference games to play, including winless Mississippi Valley State (0-13) on Tuesday for their last game in the 2015 calendar year.

Bobbitt scored a career-high 32 in the semifinals against No. 3 Oklahoma, nearly rallying the Rainbows to what would’ve been a marquee victory for the program and Ganot. UH fell 84-81 — Bobbitt had a halfcourt heave that could’ve sent it to overtime — but he and the Rainbows rallied to beat Auburn for third after trailing by nine in the final 10 minutes.

Against the Tigers, Bobbitt nailed six of seven 3-point attempts for a career best in that category and finished with an even 30 points.

He hiked his scoring average to 13.2 for the season, up from 9.4 going into the DHC.

He played the full 40 minutes in the last two games of the tournament and shot a combined 16-for-25 (64 percent). He went 23-for-26 (88.5 percent) at the line in all three DHC games, including his eight-assist night in the opening win over Northern Iowa.

On Sunday, Ganot marveled at Bobbitt’s performances which garnered him all-tournament honors, noting as the point guard “you have so much on your plate.

“You don’t just see that very often in college basketball,” Ganot added. “And then you have to combine in the history of our school and the level of competition he did it against and the level of efficiency he did it with. I’m not sure you’ll see that again, or see that in Diamond Head Classic history again.”

During the late Smith’s prolific, record-setting season for UH scoring average in 1976-77 (23.4 points per game), he eclipsed 30 points a record five times. Two of those came on consecutive nights in February of ’77 against Houston Baptist. Smith, a transfer from UCLA who played just one season in Manoa, scored 30 then 40 in two wins over HBU.

Harris scored 32 and 30 against Rhode Island and Illinois, both losses, in the 1995 Rainbow Classic, as part of his single-season total points record of 626. He had four 30-point games that season.

Before last week, the last time UH had a 30-point performance in consecutive games was in February of 1997, when the “dynamic duo” of Anthony Carter and Alika Smith alternated going over the mark in road wins at Wyoming and Colorado State.