Before a made-for-TV crowd, 11thranked Hawaii made 21st-ranked Pepperdine disappear in a haze of volleyball streaks, stuffs and breathless balance Saturday.

The Rainbow Wahine won 21-25, 25-9, 25-14, 25-14 before their first Stan Sheriff Center sellout (10,300) in nearly eight years. The massive, and increasingly manic, crowd hung out after the devastation to take part in a “Hawaii Five-0” crowd shoot.

“They are amazing,” said UH freshman Jane Croson, who had 23 very loud kills, 15 digs and three aces in a huge turnaround from Friday. “During timeouts it’s really cool to see how much fun people are having. It just brings a smile to my face.”

The Wahine (10-1) provided plenty of their own entertainment. They played well enough to sweep, but the Waves (65) were better than they had been in Friday’s first matchup.

They held on to win the first set, thanks in large part to four UH shanks, then were battered for the next 85 minutes.

UH coach Dave Shoji watched the UH football game until halftime and worried his team would suffer the same fate, until the Wahine rallied relentlessly.

“In Game 2 they had a lot of energy and the serving turned it around, I thought,” Shoji said.

“We started hitting our serves and they couldn’t run the offense like they wanted to.

“I don’t know if we can play better. The block was touching a lot of balls. We played great defense behind our block. We ran a lot of transition plays and Croson … that’s the Croson we recruited. It takes time for a left-side hitter. I think she was a little bit embarrassed by her performance last night.”

Hawaii got 39 kills from left-sides Croson and Kanani Danielson (16), but every Wahine dropped in on the Waves all night. UH scored in bunches, getting nine straight points to break open the final set.

On a night that will be remembered for Daniel Dae Kim sitting courtside and “Hawaii Five-0” orchestrating a fake hourlong postmatch frenzy, every player played her part to perfection.

“Hawaii played fantastic tonight …,” said Pepperdine coach Nina Matthies, whose team is dealing with “a couple of” injuries. “In Game 1 we stuck to our game plan, but Hawaii found another gear.”

UH middles Brittany Hewitt and Emily Hartong, who switched places in the rotation to start the second set, were in on 12 of the 13 UH blocks. They added 14 kills without an error and, with apparent ease, nine digs.

Chanteal Satele delivered nine kills, five blocks and one blast down the line that hit PU libero Micha Christiaansen in the jaw, knocking her over. Freshman Lizzie Blake subbed for Satele in the back row, making her first collegiate start and giving UH a big ball-handling boost.

UH libero Emily Maeda had 12 digs — most spectacular — and reserve Alex Griffiths had two aces in as many sets.

First-year setter Mita Uiato gathered 13 digs and touched tons of balls at the net, but mostly she fed the Wahine offensive monster. UH hit .349 with only 12 errors all night.

Croson had nearly that many by herself in Friday’s four-set win.

“I just wanted to bounce back and get revenge from last night,” the freshman said. “Tonight I was more focused, just had more energy.”

Hawaii now holds a 28-3 advantage in a series that goes back to 1976. It has won the last 11, but this one might have been one of the sweetest.

Pepperdine upset three ranked teams last week, including nowNo. 6 UCLA, the only team to beat UH. It has all its starters back from last year and is picked to win its conference.

And there was that large, adoring crowd.

“The crowd was special tonight,” Shoji said. “I know a lot were here just because of ‘Five-0,’ but I thought they were volleyball fans. They weren’t people who showed up off the street. The people who came had been here before, so it added to the excitement.” Notes

Kanani Danielson is now eight digs short of becoming the seventh Wahine with 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs.

Hawaii opens its Western Athletic Conference season this week, playing at Idaho on Thursday night and Utah State on Saturday afternoon. Chances are, the WAC won’t be nearly as wacky as the Pac-12.

The conference has six teams ranked in the top 16. Last weekend, USC was swept by UCLA, dropping to 13th. Friday, the Trojans swept fourth-ranked Washington, which swept sixth-ranked UCLA on Saturday.