Karaitiana misses a lot of shots.

But she has to keep shooting.

By default, she is their three-point specialist.

I keep hoping that at some point, something will click, the muscle memory will remember her pretty great sophmore season(39-105 from 3), and more shots can find the bottom of the net.

Huff, if she’s not double-teamed, will beat her man.

There is a polish to her made baskets.

I found another mid-major poll.

College Court Report has Hawaii ranked #4, behind St. Mary’s, Arkansas Little-Rock and Valparaiso.

Again, I’m glad that Hawaii remains unranked.

You never know how a team will play when they lose a player. Maybe it’s addition by subtraction with UC-Riverside dismissing leading scorer Taylor Johns from the team. I’d rather play Riverside with Johns.

Under Gib Arnold, I think Mike Thomas would be sitting on the end of the bench. I credit Benjy Taylor for turning himself into something that Coach Ganot can work with.

That late layup against UC-Irvine almost brought a tear to my eye.

I have to stop making fun of him. Thomas plays hard.

Arnold was borderline sociopathic in his substitution patterns.

I think Coach Ganot would have developed Douglas Kurtz. And especially, Manroop Clair, who is putting up decent numbers at Seattle U.

He never learned to play because Arnold would keep yanking him off the court everytime he did something wrong.

Laura Beeman, like Ganot, gives their players a longer leash. And Beeman was rewarded with her patience when Karaitiana hit that game-winning three on the road.

oh well.

i think ganot is doing a good job with the players he inherited. I want to see how the team is in two or three years when ganot has all of his players. although if the NCAA postseason ban is upheld and all the juniors this year leave, UH is going to field a team of all freshmen guards next year, with the best player being sherrif dramae (who i’m not a fan of), and all the momentum built for UH basketball could come to a screeching halt.