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
Isaac Fotu and the New Zealand Tall Blacks couldn’t pull the all-time upset in the FIBA World Cup group stage in an ESPN2-televised game on Tuesday, falling 98-71 to Team USA. But in a little over 16 minutes off the bench, Hawaii’s top returnee held his own while being matched up with a wide variety of foes at small forward.
It was expected to be a pretty eventful showing for current and former Hawaii men’s basketball players in the FIBA World Cup, which got underway in Spain as of Saturday. Present-day Rainbow Warrior Isaac Fotu is playing for New Zealand’s Tall Blacks, recent ‘Bow Vander Joaquim is off with Angola and Jared Dillinger is with the Philippines again. Three people representing one school is pretty significant, considering most players in the 24-team competition did not play college ball in the […]
Four games packed into in one day on Saturday meant that the four lowest seeds in the six-team league were required to win twice in a few hours if they were to survive and advance to next Saturday’s championship game.
Tuesday night was the regular-season finale of this year’s edition of the College Summer League. At the games, it was announced that the playoffs have been pushed back from this week to Aug. 16 and 23 (and taken from Maryknoll School back to the Manoa Park new gym) because of the double severe storms headed Hawaii’s way.
Once again, the Hawaii men’s basketball team will participate in ESPN’s college hoops hype event, the day-and-a-half Tip-off Marathon. This is no surprise; the Rainbow Warriors have been in all seven years of the event. ESPN needs the ‘Bows to play at an ungodly hour (less ungodly for UH than it would be any other location on the mainland, but it’s still starting at midnight). And once again, the finale of the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic will be the midnight […]
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You get your fair share of trash talking and complaining about calls in the College Summer League — and that’s just from the coaches. Then again, some guys just go out and play.
Tuesday’s docket in the College Summer League offered hoops watchers a chance for the two most productive Hawaii players in the competition, Isaac Fleming and Michael Thomas, to go head to head.