Court Sense

So what’s the holdup with the Hawaii men’s basketball team’s schedule? We’re roughly two months out from the start of the college hoops season, without anything to show for it. The delay is basically this: Filling out the Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic has been problematic, to say the least. All assurances from Lower Campus are the schedule will be released, one way or the other, but it could be missing that key element longtime fans are used to. Yup, the long-running […]

Garrett Jefferson, a 6-foot-3, 180-pound guard out of Citrus College (Calif.), took an unofficial visit to the Manoa campus with members of his family on Thursday. He was able to watch one of the Hawaii men’s basketball team’s final practices before the Rainbow Warriors depart for Asia on Friday morning. Jefferson averaged 7.8 points and 3.7 rebounds in 18.2 minutes per game as a freshman on a deep Citrus team which went 27-6 last season. He earned his associates degree […]

The 10 days of practice allowed prior to the UH basketball Asia tour was seen as a boon for the program, both in preparation for this trip starting Friday and the regular season beyond it. The downside to fully active sessions this time of year is the inherent injury risk, which was felt again today in the team’s afternoon session in Gym 2. Senior guard Zane Johnson became the latest victim of a spate of ankle injuries after landing on […]

Hey everybody, just got back from a family trip to Canada. Let’s get caught up, shall we? Here’s a smattering of UH basketball updates leading up to the team’s departure for Asia on Friday: >> No final word yet on the status of the last two signees for next season, Dillon Biggs and Gerry Blakes. UH coach Gib Arnold should know if they can get into UH by about the midpoint of the trip in mid-August. If they become the […]

Tyler Brown, a 6-foot-7, 245-pound power forward from Honaker, Va., will walk on with the Hawaii men’s basketball team next season. The freshman out of the IMG Academy in Florida could provide the team with a little extra muscle and hustle down low in the wake of the news that freshman-to-be Ronnie Stevens will not be joining the team due to academics. Brown’s started open gym workouts with his new Rainbow Warriors teammates in preparation for their upcoming trip to […]

Make that two captivating summer league performances out of two for UH hoops newcomer Shaquille Stokes. After going for 27 in his debut on Tuesday, Stokes followed it up with a 24-point outburst Thursday night in barely over a half of action with Wealth Strategy Partners. Stokes, who played for Army on Tuesday, suited up just before halftime with his unexpected new team and put on a show. The 5-foot-10 freshman point guard from New York went right at former […]

Here are a couple of items to supplement what will appear in Tuesday’s paper about next season’s UH basketball schedule: ————————— Two newcomers arrive Two of the five UH newcomers signed for next season — freshman point guard Shaquille Stokes and junior forward Hauns Brereton — have arrived in Hawaii for summer school. Stokes said he arrived from New York on Monday. The two are expected to join several of the UH returnees in the College Summer League at Manoa […]

While critics have disparaged this year’s NBA Draft as watered down, and many of the top 10 picks were unrecognizable foreign players to the average hoops fan, a remarkable statistic emerged as the names were called today. Of the first 18 players chosen for the 2011-12 NBA season, eight appeared in games played in Hawaii over the last two seasons, including picks 8 through 12. Here’s a breakdown: No. 2 pick: Derrick Williams, So. PF, Arizona, to Minnesota Timberwolves. Hawaii […]