Most of the Big West Conference postseason awards announced today made sense. In this writer’s opinion, there was one clear exception to that. Big West freshman of the year, Terrell Gomez. Gomez received the award (which would’ve been UH’s second in that category, after Isaac Fotu co-won it in 2012-13) based on voting from the league’s nine head coaches. In my mind — and maybe I’m a little biased, but I don’t think I’m off base here — it clearly should’ve […]
Fifth or sixth. Neither sound terribly appealing, but those are the only possibilities in play when Hawaii takes on Cal State Fullerton in the regular-season finale at Titan Gym today. If UH (16-12, 7-8 Big West) were to spring a mild upset and win, in conjunction with a Long Beach State home loss to UC Riverside (possible, but not terribly likely), the Rainbow Warriors are the 5 seed in next week’s Big West tournament and will appear in the 4-5 […]
UC Davis is in contention for a Big West regular-season title for two reasons. The Aggies have been dynamite at home; until recently they had a 19-game winning streak at the Pavilion, one of the longest in the country at the time. And they’ve been effective without their star, the suspended Chima Moneke, who’s expected to miss a seventh straight game tonight because of a team suspension. Per the Sacramento Bee, Chima Moneke will participate in UC Davis’ senior ceremonies […]
Hawaii can prove it has well and truly put its recent funk behind it by defeating first-place UC Irvine tonight in front of a “Whiteout” crowd at the Stan Sheriff Center. Fifth-place UH (16-10, 7-6 Big West) has won three straight since dropping five in a row, its worst Big West slide to date, just a couple of weeks ago. UCI (15-15, 10-4) needs a win tonight to keep pace ahead of UC Santa Barbara for the pole position they […]
Anything has been in play when Long Beach State and Hawaii have squared off at the Stan Sheriff Center in recent years. UH has won going away. LBSU has dominated. The Bows have won in overtime, and on and on. It’s made for an entertaining and unpredictable series. Great day to play some basketball — Produced by MT (@prodby_MT) February 22, 2018 Unfortunately for UH, it seems forward Mike Thomas will miss his second straight game with his unspecified injury […]
UPDATE: Forward Mike Thomas is out at Riverside today with an unspecified injury he incurred at UC Irvine. Not counting redshirt year of 2016-17, first game he’s missed since the 2014-15 season. How about that game on Thursday? Hawaii’s improbable one-point win at UC Irvine, in which UH sank only three field goals the entire second half, came courtesy of strong defense, rebounding, ball control, and exceptional free-throw shooting. (And some beneficial calls down the stretch.) Now the sixth-place Rainbow […]
Those seeking a reversal of fortune are generally not advised to play UC Irvine, especially at the Bren Events Center. Especially when the Anteaters have won five games in a row. That, however, is exactly the situation Hawaii (13-10, 4-6 BWC) finds itself in today. The Rainbow Warriors are 6.5-point underdogs in the building they lost by 28 in last season. They’ll look to surprise everyone — including their own fan base — by snapping their five-game slide and solidifying their […]
The week that was supposed to cure the Hawaii basketball team’s ills instead magnified them. UH found ways to continue its slide into unprecedented territory under third-year coach Eran Ganot, dropping home games to the eighth- and ninth-place teams in the conference, UC Riverside and Cal State Northridge. The Rainbow Warriors (13-10, 4-6 Big West) shot a season-low 33.3 percent in one, and allowed a season-high 65.1 percent in the other. They own their longest BWC losing streak of five. […]
