Gameday: Cal Poly
By Brian McInnis on January 6, 2016In what has become Big West tradition, Hawaii opens up Big West Conference play with nemesis Cal Poly.
Formerly about Rainbow Warriors basketball, but now covering all University of Hawaii sports.
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Brian McInnis has covered sports on Oahu full time since 2007, when he joined the Honolulu Star-Bulletin staff as a general reporter. He was the UH basketball beat writer from the 2008-09 season through 2017-18. Follow him on twitter @Brian_McInnis
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Gameday: Howard
By Brian McInnis on January 2, 2016Howard’s James Daniel III averages a staggering 29 points per game, leading the nation in both field-goal and free-throw attempts. This guy has the ball in his hands a lot.
Some NYE resolutions
By Brian McInnis on December 31, 2015UH can resolve to do a few things just a little better in order to give itself a shot to go all the way in the Big West.
NCAA appeal still in play
By Brian McInnis on December 29, 2015While Hawaii officials sounded down on the prospect of appealing the NCAA’s sanctions ruling against the UH basketball program last Tuesday, they did not rule it out entirely. It turns out an appeal of the sanctions — a 2016-17 postseason ban, three years of probation and two docked scholarships for the next two years — is very much still a possibility. Hawaii athletic director David Matlin said in a message UH has until Jan. 6 to decide whether to appeal, […]
Bobbitt on his PoW award
By Brian McInnis on December 28, 2015After earning a rare feat in the annals of UH basketball, Roderick Bobbitt received his second Big West Player of the Week award of the season on Monday.
Gameday: Auburn
By Brian McInnis on December 25, 2015The Rainbow Warriors will try to make their Christmas a jolly one for the third straight year in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic third-place game against Auburn. Tipoff is at 1:30 p.m. with the game televised on ESPN2.
Gameday: Oklahoma
By Brian McInnis on December 23, 2015Hawaii’s reward for a rousing win over Northern Iowa on Tuesday night is only the program’s biggest test in decades.
The hammer comes down
By Brian McInnis on December 22, 2015UH learned its punishment from the NCAA today, and it was as close to a worst-case scenario as you could get.