When Tes Whitlock hit a shot beyond 20 feet as time expired to beat BYU in 1995, it was not the first or last decisive buzzer bomb in University of Hawaii basketball history. Trevor Ruffin, Bobby Nash, Petras Balocka, Hauns Brereton (and Joston Thomas), Garrett Jefferson, Keith Shamburger, Roderick Bobbitt, Noah Allen and Leland Green are among those who also made big shots to win games or extend them as the clock ran out. But Whitlock’s stands out alone to […]
I can thank the University of Hawaii sports teams for most of my experiences with snow. Think Rainbow Wahine volleyball in 1983, ’87, ’88 and ’96 (NCAA final fours in Kentucky, Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio) to name a few sub-freezing sites. And then there is black ice. Outside of driving in an almost-blinding snowstorm from Colorado State to Denver International after the Wahine lost in the 2008 regional final to Stanford, the drive on the I-244 in Tulsa might just […]
Guard Ahmed Ali has a health issue that will prevent him from playing for the UH basketball team this season. Ali, who was born and reared in Toronto, played two seasons at a junior college and started 24 games for Washington State during the 2018-19 season. He transferred to UH this summer. Ali said he was notified of his condition just before the start of the Rainbow Warriors’ third practice of training camp. Ali said he is withdrawing from UH […]
Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo tried to compliment the University of Hawaii team that had just romped over his squad, 84-62, in the 2005 season-opener for both. But he did not have kind words for the fans at the Stan Sheriff Center. “That’s the maddest I’ve ever been as a coach in college,” Izzo said. The source of his displeasure was some fans booing when MSU player Shannon Brown — one of four Spartans reported to have left the […]
The University of Hawaii has always had to look off-island for basketball talent if it wanted to seriously compete. The Rainbows took that a Euro-step — and beyond — farther nearly two decades ago. It was right before 2000 when veteran head coach Riley Wallace agreed to let assistant Scott Rigot use his strong international recruiting connections to build a squad of players from around the world. The Rainbows ended up with stars and role players from Canada (Phil Martin […]
The 10 who saw action in Hawaii’s Green & White scrimmage on Saturday afternoon had every opportunity to make a case for playing time in the upcoming 2019-20 season. Redshirt freshman Zoar Nedd did just that, scoring 10 points in 25 minutes of game action spanning three periods in front of a crowd of about 400 at the Stan Sheriff Center. “It was special. It was the first couple buckets I ever had (in front of a crowd) in this […]
During a recent practice, Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot brought his players together and let them know in no uncertain terms that their performance in a shooting drill was unacceptable. Twice. “Our shooting wasn’t there,” Ganot said afterward. “So a big part of our being good in any area, and in that area for sure, is being consistent. You might have a range there, but our range can’t be that wide. Our numbers, the extremes were too far apart. … […]
They haven’t been here since 2015, replaced by the new kids in town. Even though their stars didn’t play, the guys who for decades were the other NBA team based in Southern California played the Houston Rockets last week in front of a full house at the Stan Sheriff Center. The on-campus arena at the University of Hawaii used to be the domain of the Los Angeles Lakers. Los Angeles Clippers still doesn’t sound right … they had that nickname […]
