The Hawaii basketball team has reached an agreement to play North Carolina on Nov. 20, 2020 in the Stan Sheriff Center. It will be the first meeting between the teams since 2016, when the game drew a capacity crowd in Manoa. The Tar Heels won that Nov. 18 matchup 83-68 en route to the Maui Invitational. “It’s awesome,” UH coach Eran Ganot said. “It’s exciting on a lot of different levels to bring in a really good team in our […]
Here’s a Halloween treat for UH basketball supporters: Leland Green said he expects to be available to play in Friday’s exhibition against Hawaii Pacific. Green has been recovering from a shoulder ailment and ensuing corrective procedure. He did not play in the Green-White scrimmage a couple weeks ago. But Green worked out today on his own today, using a ball retriever while shooting jump shots in the Stan Sheriff Center. * * * * * * Kings for a day:
After a recent weightlifting session, Zigmars Raimo laid out exactly how he was trying to help Hawaii’s young triad of 7-footers become Division I-ready players. Beat their okoles through sheer physicality. “I’m trying to do my best, because yeah, at first Gibson (Johnson) and Mike (Thomas) was beating my ass in the practice,” Raimo, a 6-7 junior, said of his freshman and sophomore seasons. “So I’m trying to do the same thing to Mate (Colina) and Dawson (Carper) and Owen […]
For UH basketball coach Eran Ganot, preseason polls are save-the-date reminders. “I’ve always said the exciting thing about the preseason predictions that are going around right now is your season is a step closer,” Ganot said this morning. In the media poll released today, the Rainbow Warriors are predicted to finish sixth in the nine-team Big West. UC Irvine, with 10 of the 24 first-place votes, is picked to win the league. “The reality whether we’re picked first or the […]
Coming off a sixth-place showing and the loss of its two best players from 2017-18, the Hawaii men’s basketball team was tabbed to finish sixth in the Big West preseason media poll released on Thursday morning. Defending regular-season champ UC Davis was tabbed to finish third, while defending Big West tournament champ Cal State Fullerton was predicted second. Annual contender UC Irvine was slotted first receiving 10 of the 24 first-place votes. UPDATE: UH coach Eran Ganot shared his thoughts […]
A couple of former Rainbow Warriors are attempting to take their games to the NBA G League. Forwards Noah Allen and Mike Thomas are on training camp rosters for two teams in the G League (formerly the D-League), the NBA’s up-and-coming minor league that now features 27 franchises. Allen, who played his lone season for UH in 2016-17 and was a first-team All-Big West player, was drafted 15th overall by the Capital City Go-Go, the Washington Wizards’ G League affiliate, […]
Pi‘ikea Kitamura, a versatile player during his UH career, has joined the Rainbow Warriors’ baseball staff as a volunteer assistant. Kitamura is a Kamehameha-Kapalama alumnus who was valued at UH as an infielder, backup catcher and leader. Jerry Kleman, an assistant coach last year, departed the program this summer. Mike Brown was hired to fill a coaching position that was initially vacated when Rusty McNamara and his family decided to move to Italy last year. * * * * * […]
Drew Buggs flipped a layup up and in on a give-and-go sequence moments after he’d found Zigmars Raimo on a nice dime for an inside bucket. The Hawaii point guard flashed a smile that suggested he was thoroughly enjoying himself near the tail end of yet another grueling practice in the sweaty confines of Gym I. It was the 10th practice, in fact, which put UH at about one-third of the way through the 2018-19 preseason. Until a handful of […]
