The Rainbow Wahine (23-1) swept Tulsa, 30-20, 30-22, 30-26, at Reynolds Center. They got 21 kills from All-American Kim Willoughby, solid performances from those around her, and out-hit the Golden Hurricane .336 to .159.

The same could be said Thursday at Rice and Friday at LSU.

"All three matches were very similar," UH coach Dave Shoji said. "Different people keep playing well. Every night it seems like we get different people contributing, but the outcome is always the same. I think the teams we played on this trip are all similar. They can hang with us for a little while, but their block is not big enough to slow us down."

Hawai'i extended its winning streaks to 22 this year, 83 against WAC teams and 165 when facing unranked opponents. It is 9-0 in the WAC going into Thursday's home match against Boise State.

Tulsa (11-10, 2-7) did have one bright spot. In its previous three matches against UH in the rally-scoring era, it averaged just 16 points and never scored more than 22. Tulsa has taken just one game off Hawai'i in their 10-match series, back in 1997.

The "breakthrough" last night might have had more to do with the Rainbow Wahine travel schedule than Tulsa. The team flew into Oklahoma yesterday afternoon and skipped its usual pre-match practice. The players even asked the coaches to shorten the warmup.

"We didn't have a lot of motivation on this trip other than to win matches, so I don't know how much we gained by it," Shoji said. "But one thing we did learn is we can play tired. They knew what it was to play tired and played through it."

Willoughby had seven hitting errors last night and hit .359 — some 40 points below her average. The team hitting percentage did not suffer, however, with Nohea Tano going 8 for 10 and Karin Lundqvist 4 for 4, in one game. Neither had an error.

Tulsa took early leads in all three games but never threatened to win one. It came closest in Game 3, against four UH reserves, cutting a five-point UH advantage to 23-21.