Court Sense

Formerly about Rainbow Warriors basketball, but now covering all University of Hawaii sports.

About the blog host

Brian McInnis has covered sports on Oahu full time since 2007, when he joined the Honolulu Star-Bulletin staff as a general reporter. He was the UH basketball beat writer from the 2008-09 season through 2017-18. Follow him on twitter @Brian_McInnis

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Hawaii men’s basketball: Rainbow Warriors soul search after brutal loss to Long Beach State

By Brian McInnis on February 13, 2020

Members of the Hawaii men’s basketball team attempted to give voice to what transpired on the Stan Sheriff Center court some 20 minutes earlier. No easy feat after the 50-49 loss to last-place Long Beach State. “We gotta find ourselves, a little bit. We lost our way just a little,” said senior Eddie Stansberry. “Just lack of togetherness. The whole game we just wasn’t together,” freshman guard Justin Webster summarized. Maybe most telling, a shaken Eran Ganot said, “We weren’t […]

Hawaii women’s basketball: Julissa Tago, Amy Atwell within range of season 3-point record

By Brian McInnis on February 12, 2020

The recent 3-point binge of the Hawaii women’s basketball team has led to what could be the most prolific outside-shooting season in program history. Not one, but two Hawaii women’s basketball players could — and will very likely — soon surpass the program record for 3-pointers in a season, with Julissa Tago positioned to possibly do it as soon as Thursday’s home game against Cal State Northridge. Tago, the senior guard who is at No. 4 in Rainbow Wahine career 3s […]

Hawaii softball: Rainbow Wahine settle into new roles in opening tournament

By Brian McInnis on February 9, 2020

The Paradise Classic ended the way it started for the Hawaii softball team. With a lopsided win over Northern Colorado. In between, the Rainbow Wahine took their lumps from Memphis and Iowa State, the latter of which went on to win the four-team tournament on Saturday afternoon, as they worked through new roles and responsibilities. After beating UNC 11-2 in the season opener Thursday, the Wahine absorbed 8-4 and 15-3 successive defeats to ISU and Memphis on Friday. The first […]

Hawaii men’s basketball: Drew Buggs salutes late mother after breaking UH assist record

By Brian McInnis on February 9, 2020

For most of Hawaii’s battle with Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Saturday, it appeared the record was destined to fall at the Stan Sheriff Center in the coming week. Drew Buggs needed only three assists to become UH’s new all-time record-holder, and he was making his customary passes to open teammates. But for whatever reason, those shots weren’t falling in Mott Gym like they had been. Finally, after UH rallied from 15 points down late in regulation to […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Rado Parapunov, Charlie Wade see room for improvement

By Brian McInnis on February 9, 2020

There would be no grand pronouncements of championship destiny coming from the Hawaii men’s volleyball team on this night. Even after a sweep of No. 4 UC Irvine that moved the No. 1 Rainbow Warriors to 12-0 and gave them the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts title, in addition to a 25th straight home win. Perhaps it was the five straight match points that the Anteaters saved before UH finally put it away at 25-22, 25-20, 25-20. Or that UH hit […]

Hawaii basketball: Injured players Samuta Avea, Bernardo da Silva were missed

By Brian McInnis on February 8, 2020

Every time you looked back at your screen on Thursday, Amadou Sow was rising up for a dunk or a layup. Occasionally even a 3-point shot. The UC Santa Barbara big man had his way of things, shooting 12-for-13 for 30 points in a 76-66 Gauchos win over Hawaii at the Thunderdome. While the Rainbow Warriors’ three 7-footers held down the fort at home when UH beat UCSB 70-63 at the Stan Sheriff Center, you could tell UH was lacking […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Brett Sheward settles in at setter

By Brian McInnis on February 8, 2020

You wouldn’t know by merely watching that Brett Sheward was playing his first career match as the starting setter for the home team in the Stan Sheriff Center. Sheward, a redshirt freshman, was in firm command of the Hawaii offense as the No. 1 Rainbow Warriors swept No. 14 Concordia Irvine 25-19, 25-21, 25-15 on Friday night, setting up a de facto championship match against No. 4 UC Irvine for the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Invitational title on Saturday. Jakob […]

Hawaii men’s basketball: Former UH great Carl English retires

By Brian McInnis on February 7, 2020

At long last, Carl English is calling it a career. The 39-year-old English, one of the best players in Hawaii basketball history, had enjoyed a resurgence in his native Canada in the twilight of his career. Playing for his hometown St. John’s Edge in the National Basketball League, he’d been a league MVP as recently as two years ago, when he was still scoring points in bunches. English announced his retirement in a Twitter post Friday. He will have a […]

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