FINAL: Hawaii rallies furiously from 17 points down with 11 minutes left to defeat Cal State Northridge 80-75 on Saturday night and improve to 5-1 in Big West play. Eddie Stansberry led the UH charge for UH (14-6) with 22 points, his 11th 20-point game of the season. Zigmars Raimo added a season-high 20 points on 9-for-11 shooting and freshman guard Justin Webster scored a season-high 17 points, including two key late 1-and-1 free throws to push the lead to […]
The Big West Conference is undergoing some changes this summer with the additions of Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego across most of its sports. In the case of basketball, one of the league’s signature sports, that meant some potentially significant future changes when those additions were announced a couple years ago. Right now, in the nine-team league, men’s and women’s hoops teams play a 16-game conference schedule, after which there is an eight-team tournament to determine the BWC’s […]
Tributes from all over the world continue to pour in following the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna along with seven others in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The Hawaii basketball teams were no different. Bryant, who continued to have an influence in basketball in the years after his retirement in 2016, was an icon to many of the Rainbow Warriors and Wahine. Here is a compilation of video interviews about Bryant with UH players and […]
It’s a regular occurrence for a Hawaii basketball Big West road game to get picked up on Fox Sports Prime Ticket, ESPN3, ESPNU, or even once in a while, ESPN2. But Big West home games? That’s never happened — until Tuesday. UH announced its marquee home game against Big West co-leader UC Irvine on Feb. 15 will be broadcast on ESPN2, marking the first time in UH’s eight years of Big West membership a conference game at the Stan Sheriff Center […]
Most of the following appears on the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s breaking news. An elite-level point guard from Australia has pledged to join the University of Hawaii basketball this summer. Biwali Bayles, who is 6 feet 1 and 180 pounds, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser he has accepted a scholarship offer from the Rainbow Warriors for 2020-21 season. His commitment comes on the heels of UH’s 76-75 win over UC Davis on Saturday night, in which guard Eddie Stansberry hit the game-winning 3-pointer […]
The basketball world — heck, the world in general — was shaken by the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant on Sunday. That morning’s helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., took the life of Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others. Locally, the mood changed quickly from the previous night’s wins for the UH basketball teams — at UC Riverside for the women and at home, and a men’s thriller over UC Davis in the program’s 100th season celebration game. UH paid […]
With the celebration of a basketball program’s 100 years of history, there naturally comes a celebration of moments. On Saturday night, the 2020 Hawaii men’s basketball team created its own moment, one that could resonate throughout the next 100 years of Hawaii basketball history. The Rainbow Warriors (13-6, 4-1 Big West Conference) needed every second of the conference tilt against the UC Davis Aggies (8-13, 2-3), never giving up down the stretch. The ‘Bows fought back from a nine-point deficit […]
FINAL: Eddie Stansberry drained the go-ahead 3 with 3.3 seconds left to lift Hawaii to a 76-75 victory over UC Davis tonight in the Stan Sheriff Center. >> PHOTO GALLERY: HAWAII VS. UC DAVIS Stansberry was aligned on the right side on an inbounds play. He looped behind a double screen, caught Drew Buggs’ inbounds pass on the left side and drained the winner. Joe Mooney’s desperation heave did not fall as time expired. STANSBERRY FOR 3 AND IT’S BEDLAM […]
