The court at Cal State Northridge’s gym is known as the “Blacktop” for the trademark color of the floor surface.

On Thursday night, it was known as the Black Hole. It’s where No. 3 Hawaii’s game disappeared and never re-emerged during the 98-minute Big West men’s volleyball match.

Rainbow Warrior junior hitter Stijn van Tilburg had his 11th match with double-digit kills when putting down 18 but got little help as Hawaii (13-4, 1-2 Big West) was swept for the first time this season, 25-18, 26-24, 25-23. Sophomore hitter Austin Matautia added seven kills but no other Warrior had more than three in their first road trip in two months and first match on an opponent’s home court.

Senior opposite Arvis Greene Jr. shared match-high honors with 18 kills, giving Matador coach Jeff Campbell his 300th career win. It also gave CSUN (11-7, 1-2) its first victory in the inaugural Big West season as well as snapped an eight-game losing streak against Hawaii.

The teams meet again today at 4 p.m. Hawaii time.

“We’re confident we are a good team, we’re just not playing very good right now,” Warrior coach Charlie Wade said in a telephone call. “Give credit to Northridge. They played great.

“Stijn was our one bright spot but you’re not going to win many games with only one guy. The encouraging thing was the guys in the locker room talking about how they need to execute better, step it up and play better. I hope it’s (tonight).”

Hawaii never got its versatile attack on track. The Warriors were rarely able to go to their middles, with both junior Dalton Solbrig and sophomore Patrick Gasman finishing with just two kills apiece. Both of Gasman’s came in Set 3.

Hawaii had a chance at evening the match when leading for all of Set 2, including 16-12 and 20-17. At 24-23, the Warriors had a swing at ending it only to have van Tilburg blocked.

Van Tilburg again was stuffed on the next play, giving CSUN its first lead at 25-24. A hitting error by Solbrig gave the Matadors the 2-0 lead.

For a second consecutive match, sophomore opposite Rado Parapunov struggled. In last Saturday’s loss to Brigham Young, Parapunov was replaced by van Tilburg at opposite with junior Brett Rosenmeier then sophomore Colton Cowell on the left.

On Thursday, van Tilburg stayed on the left with sophomore Brandon Rattray coming in at opposite in Set 3. Not much changed.

“I’m thinking about a lot of stuff,” Wade said when asked about readjustments for today. “Part of it is we just need to find that mojo.”

The Warriors rallied from a 3-0 deficit to open Set 3 and went ahead at 6-4. Hawaii hung tough late, tying at 19 and 20, but could not retake the lead. CSUN needed two match points to finish it, getting junior middle Erik Chance’s eighth kill to do it.

“That was a great match. Any time Arvis hits .438 we’re going to be in really good shape,” Campbell said in a news release. “Our passing was really solid, Emmett (junior libero Enriques, a Kamehameha-Hawaii product) was outstanding. We played as good a volleyball match as we’ve played all year and this was against a really good Hawai’i team.”