Jessiya Villa is taking his basketball talents less than a mile away. Villa, who redshirted as a UH freshman this past season, is transferring to Chaminade. He entered the NCAA’s transfer portal two weeks ago. “Coach (Eric) Bovaird and I have had a relationship even prior to my graduation at Kahuku,” Villa said. Villa’s grandfather, Bill Villa, is retiring in June as Chaminade’s athletic director. Villa was born in Hawaii but grew up mostly on the mainland. He enrolled at […]
Dawson Carper, who has completed two seasons with the UH basketball team, confirmed he is transferring to Missouri State. Carper had entered the transfer portal two weeks ago, citing a desire to attend a school closer to his family’s home in Colorado Springs. Missouri State’s Springfield campus is 640 miles away. pic.twitter.com/k8Yq7CVTkn — Daws (@Dawson_Carper) April 8, 2020 Carper based his decision largely on conversations with MSU coach Dana Ford and forward Gaige Prim. “It’s tough because you can’t visit […]
When all the Twitter votes were counted, the 2015-16 team was deemed the best of all in the 100 years of University of Hawaii men’s basketball. This edition could already be described as the most accomplished, with the records for most wins and the only UH victory in NCAA Tournament play, as Hawaii finally won on its fifth and most recent dance invitation. This came 14 years after UH’s last previous appearance. That was by the 2001-02 team, which was […]
The people have spoken. By a final split of 70.1 percent to 29.9 percent among 144 votes on Twitter, the top-seeded “IncrediBows” of 2015-16 downed the No. 3-seeded “Internationals” of 2001-02 to claim the championship of the Hawaii basketball 100th Season Best-Team Bracket. The championship of the #HawaiiMBB 100th Season Best-Team Bracket is live. MATCHUP >> No. 1, 2015-16 (Stefan Jankovic, Roderick Bobbitt, Aaron Valdes) VS. >> No. 3, 2001-02 (Predrag Savovic, Carl English, Mark Campbell) Team info/rosters here: https://t.co/0Rb4QYuAR2 […]
You’ve helped us get this far, and we thank you for that. Memories were revived. Pride was in play. Arguments were made. Now you have one important task remaining — to help us settle the fans’ choice for the singular Hawaii men’s basketball best team of all time. The picks have been made. The stage is set. The teams have taken the floor at the Stan Sheriff Center. It’s the top-seeded 2015-16 squad, the “ImprobaBows,” against the third-seeded 2001-02 squad, […]
Our little experiment is drawing to a close. The results of the Final Four semifinals went final on Sunday morning. Top-seeded 2015-16 held serve, ousting No. 4 1997-98, but on the other side of the bracket, No. 2 1971-72 could not do the same — becoming the tournament’s first upset victim, and falling to No. 3 2001-02. Bragging rights will be up for grabs on Monday and finalized on Tuesday. Voting will commence via Twitter at 9 a.m. (HST), the […]
Four teams. Four different decades. Two spots available for the finals of the Hawaii basketball 100th Season Best-Team Bracket. Our little experiment is drawing to a close. Only two days of competition remain — today and Monday — just like how the NCAA Tournament would’ve been played. The top four seeds — 2015-16, 1971-72, 1997-98, and 2001-02 — each represent a totally different makeup of players and styles, not to mention rules of the game at the time. It’s up […]
A prolific junior-college point guard is set to join the UH men’s basketball team. JoVon McClanahan, who is completing his first year at Sheridan (Wy.) College, announced on Twitter and then confirmed to Hawaii Warrior World that he will accept a basketball scholarship from the Rainbow Warriors. If the NCAA schedule holds, McClanahan will be allowed to sign a letter of intent on April 15, the first day of the spring-signing period for basketball recruits. McClanahan, who was an NCAA […]
