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Gameday: Missouri // Fleming in fold

By Brian McInnis on November 16, 2013

Hawaii is about an hour away from its toughest test of the young season. Today’s matchup against Missouri (a team receiving AP Top 25 votes) in Kansas City, Mo., has the potential to be the most difficult game of the entire season. The 2 p.m. (local time) game is being televised on Fox Sports Midwest (not available in most formats here, unless you have satellite coverage). But it is being livestreamed on ESPN3.com, so that will be your most likely […]

Gamenight: New Mexico State

By Brian McInnis on November 11, 2013

The Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic meant something a little different to Negus Webster-Chan than the rest of his Hawaii teammates. NWC, who is redshirting as a transfer from Missouri, got to reconnect with a few old friends who play for New Mexico State, UH’s opponent tonight in the ESPN College Hoops Tip-off Marathon. Webster-Chan, of Scarborough, Ontario, got to meet up with NMSU’s native Canadians Daniel Mullings and Renaldo Dixon, and brothers Sim and Tanveer Bhullar. “They’re like my brothers. Not […]

Redshirts, anyone?

By Brian McInnis on November 6, 2013

Hawaii coach Gib Arnold indicated earlier this preseason that he would make any determinations about this season’s redshirt players after the Brigham Young-Hawaii exhibition. Well, that time has arrived. The most logical candidate is true freshman Niko Filipovich, who spoke of a willingness to redshirt in the summer. But UH’s recent injuries to guards Quincy Smith (back) and Brandon Spearman (ankle) have affected UH’s depth, meaning Filipovich will not be wearing street clothes, at least for the Outrigger Hotels and […]

Spearman update

By Brian McInnis on November 3, 2013

Saturday came and went without any clear-cut timetable for a return to action for Hawaii senior guard Brandon Spearman. The tri-captain seems in high spirits considering it was diagnosed as a high ankle sprain during/immediately after the Brigham Young-Hawaii exhibition, when a Seasiders player fell into his legs on the jump ball and he turned his right foot. He tweeted this earlier Saturday. But he’s holding off talking to the media about his injury for now. UH coach Gib Arnold […]

Halloween gameday: UH vs. BYUH

By Brian McInnis on October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween, all. Be safe out there, with kiddies or without, at the UH basketball game vs. BYUH or anywhere else. At last, after a month of preseason practices, the Rainbow Warriors finally get to suit up against someone else for all to see. (At least, all who don’t have other arrangements tonight, and I’m betting that precludes a lot of you.) “I think it will be good for both teams,” UH coach Gib Arnold said. “I think BYU-Hawaii does […]

UH hoops picked sixth

By Brian McInnis on October 24, 2013

Well, how about that. The Hawaii men’s basketball team was dealt a measure of disrespect — how I’m sure it will come off to the Rainbow Warriors — from the media Thursday with UH’s projected finish of sixth place in the Big West Conference preseason poll. It’s true that UH has several reasons for optimism this year, but, as the poll showed, so do about six other teams in the nine-team league. Many have their top player back from last season. […]

MASH unit

By Brian McInnis on October 24, 2013

A confluence of circumstances left the Hawaii basketball team more shorthanded than usual on Wednesday. In addition to existing injuries to center Caleb Dressler and point guard Niko Filipovich, UH was without lead guard Keith Shamburger, shooting guard Jack Hackman and wing Negus Webster-Chan. A team manager was also out of commission. Shamburger and Hackman (and the manager) were out with illnesses. Webster-Chan took a shot to the eye earlier this week. Dressler still seems a long ways off from […]

Green & White rewind

By Brian McInnis on October 22, 2013

Hawaii basketball’s Green & White Scrimmage experiment on Saturday wasn’t perfect (it could have used game jerseys that were, you know, green and white), but it was a fair platform to introduce the 2013-14 Rainbow Warriors without any set national date for Midnight Madness events this year. There was more actual basketball action than you could ask for in previous iterations of the Ohana Hoopfest/Twilight Ohana/Midnight Ohana. The crowd of about 1,000 was also respectable, and the team and coaches […]

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