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Game day: CSUN vs. Hawaii basketball

By Stephen Tsai on February 1, 2020

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 […]

Hawaii women’s basketball: Thursday’s 94-point outburst rare in 21st century

By Brian McInnis on February 1, 2020

In the moment, you got the feeling that it was something that hadn’t been seen in some time. UH kept scoring and scoring on Thursday night against UC Irvine, to the point that the Rainbow Wahine did something not seen in nearly two decades. They cracked 90 points against a Division I team. The 94-70 outburst was the program’s highest point total since a 97-88 overtime win over SMU on March 9, 2001. It was the second time UH racked […]

Hawaii football: Philadelphia Eagles assistant, former Tulsa quarterback GJ Kinne hired as UH offensive coordinator

By Warrior World on January 31, 2020

The following appears on the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s breaking news. The Hawaii football team has reached to the NFL for its offensive coordinator. Gary Joe “GJ” Kinne, who spent the past season with the Philadelphia Eagles as an offensive assistant, has been tabbed to direct head coach Todd Graham’s vertical-stretch, no-huddle attack. Kinne is familiar to both Graham and Hawaii football fans. Kinne threw for 343 yards and three touchdowns in leading Tulsa to a 62-35 victory over Hawaii in the […]

Hawaii basketball: Big West moves to 20-game league schedule in 2021, keeps 8-team tournaments

By Brian McInnis on January 31, 2020

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 […]

Hawaii women’s basketball: Fast tempo plus taking care of the ball equals high shooting percentage

By Dave Reardon on January 31, 2020

In a statistical onslaught such as the University of Hawaii women’s basketball team’s 94-70 crushing on UC Irvine on Thursday, the shiny objects are the shooting numbers — especially from 3-point range. The Wahine made 14-of-28 from beyond the arc, and it seemed like more. It is the fifth time this year UH has made 10 or more 3-pointers. And in those games, Hawaii is 4-1. Julissa Tago, who made five of 13, is moving up the all-time long-range shooting […]

Hawaii football: Dan Phillips is new special teams coordinator

By Warrior World on January 30, 2020

The following appears on the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s breaking news. Head coach Todd Graham filled the third phase of his football coaching staff with the addition of Dan Phillips as special teams coordinator, school officials announced today. Phillips has spent 26 years coaching at the college and high school levels. For five seasons under Graham at Arizona State, Phillips served as a senior analyst for special teams and defense. “Coach Danny Phillips is a seasoned veteran, coaching and directing special teams,” […]

Hawaii basketball: UH players, coaches react to loss of Kobe Bryant

By Brian McInnis on January 30, 2020

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 […]

Hawaii baseball: Rainbow Warriors picked sixth in Big West

By Brian McInnis on January 29, 2020

The Hawaii baseball team was selected to finish sixth place in the Big West Conference in 2020, the league announced Wednesday. That matches the Rainbow Warriors’ highest preseason prediction in eight years of Big West membership. Perennial contender Cal State Fullerton was picked to win the league in a vote of the BWC’s nine head coaches. UH was also picked to finish sixth in 2019, as well. The Rainbow Warriors were 7-6 in BWC play at one point before dropping […]

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