A rotation of Rainbow Warriors took aim from the corner and let 3-point shots fly. With each successive make, the chorus of cheers grew from a spectating group of Hawaii teammates.

Leland Green knocked down a couple on his turn up, but an eventual miss by the freshman — snapping a chain of a handful of swishes — drew some hisses from the peanut gallery at Thursday’s team practice in the Stan Sheriff Center.

“He needs the crowd!” was the general sentiment as a grinning Green shook his head.

The elation from Green’s game-winning corner 3 against Cal State Northridge the previous night hadn’t yet waned. The 80-77 victory pushed UH’s record to 8-9 overall and 2-2 in Big West play, good for a tie for fourth at this early stage.

Los Angeles-area family and friends contributed to blowing up Green’s phone and Twitter account in the moments after the shot dropped with 0.9 seconds left — CSUN’s heave to tie was off the mark — and a swarm of ’Bows converged around him.

“I think my grandma texted me 10 times. My mom (was) texting me,” Green said. “Everyone was just blowing up my phone. I didn’t even want to check Twitter at first. It’s kind of bad. A hundred notifications.”

He woke up Thursday morning torn between reliving the moment and pushing past it for Saturday’s 7 p.m. matchup against UC Davis (11-8, 3-1 Big West), the third opponent of UH’s five-game homestand.

“A little bit of both,” Green said. “I know it was a big shot, but I know it’s a slight, fast turnaround.”

UH went through a similar emotional reset after the previous game, a 114-107 overtime win over Long Beach State last Saturday that Noah Allen sent to the extra session with a layup at the regulation buzzer.

Allen topped his career-best 25 points in that game with 30 against CSUN (7-11, 3-2), becoming the third ’Bow in three years to drop 30-plus on the Matadors. Aaron Valdes had 34 against them in 2015 and Stefan Jankovic matched that in 2016.

“Everyone took notice of that game,” said point guard Brocke Stepteau, who delivered the pass to Green on the final possession. “It was a big game for us, for the team, to prove that that game against Long Beach wasn’t a fluke and that we’re actually for real, we can compete in this league.”

Green hit two early 3s Wednesday but had no field goals in the second half until his big bucket, quite the follow-up to his career-high 25 against LBSU. It was set up by Stepteau, who played the full game in part because of the injury absence of Sheriff Drammeh (pinched nerve). Stepteau matched his career high of seven assists.

After CSUN’s Tavrion Dawson tied the game on a free throw with 29.6 seconds left, UH coach Eran Ganot trusted Stepteau to make a play without calling timeout. Stepteau focused on keeping the ball away from Kendall Smith as he killed clock near midcourt. After going around a screen from Gibson Johnson, he had to make a read from the free-throw line with a few seconds left.

“No one can get open unless there’s penetration. Make the defense get off who they’re guarding,” Stepteau said. “We have a lot of good players, Noah who was going, Leland who was hitting early in the first half, and Jack (Purchase) who’s always a good shooter. I had a lot of options coming off (the screen) and I knew I was going to hit the open one. And the open one was Lee (in the right corner), and he knocked it down.”

Green envisioned hitting a shot like that as he grew up, through his days at Redondo Union High and as he was college-bound to Manoa.

“I dreamed about hitting a 3 and falling back … on the floor and everybody just piles on top,” he said.

In reality, he stayed upright.

“It was still great,” he said.

Drammeh, who’d started every game of the season until Wednesday, remains day-to-day.