Fresno State prep

The Hawaii men’s basketball team has played basketball at all hours this season. There was the late-night game in the Rainbow Classic, a morning game in the Diamond Head Classic on Christmas Day, not to mention awkward hours of practices on UH’s recent road trips.

So the Rainbow Warriors (10-8, 1-5 WAC) shrugged off a late-night practice at Klum Gym last night — held from 9 to 10:45 p.m. because coach Gib Arnold had just returned home from a recruiting trip — and got plenty of rest before a normal afternoon practice today.

Energy levels seemed to be fine in preparation for tomorrow’s game against Fresno State (7-9, 3-3), which has lost three in a row after a 3-0 WAC start.

“We were alright,” junior guard Zane Johnson said. “Some of us got in the cold tub, some of us older guys. We use that cold tub a lot, I really think we recover faster with that.”

In addition, the Rainbows got a present: new adidas game shoes.

“We’ve been waiting on these for a while,” Johnson said.

Interesting subplot to the game against FSU: UH associate head coach Walter Roese was an assistant to Bulldogs coach Steve Cleveland for several years at BYU. Roese naturally had the scout against his old boss.

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Meanwhile, the Rainbow Wahine basketball team scrimmaged against its men’s practice squad, Da Braddahs, in Gym 2.

The Wahine are trying to shake off the disappointment of a narrow loss at Boise State last week, in which they allowed a 37-point game from BSU forward Lauren Lenhardt, ultimately UH’s undoing. UH takes to the road again tomorrow for Saturday’s game at winless San Jose State (0-16).

Though the Spartans are impossible to describe as anything but awful, this is an opponent the Wahine (6-11, 0-4) cannot overlook.