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UH hoops practice preview

By Brian McInnis on September 24, 2013

Practice? Y’all want to talk about practice? Already? Believe it or not (I can’t), it’s that time again, ladies and gents. The Hawaii men’s basketball team starts up full practices for the 2013-14 season on Friday — a good two and a half weeks ahead of the traditional start to practices of past seasons around Oct. 15. The NCAA bumped up the time coaches get to spend with their players before the season, giving them 30 days of full practices […]

2 out, 1 in (with Webster-Chan commit Q&A)

By Brian McInnis on April 13, 2013

Negus Webster-Chan became the Hawaii basketball team’s first commitment of the spring on Saturday night. Webster-Chan liked what he saw during his UH visit Friday and Saturday. The 6-7 swingman will have to sit out 2013-14 then will have three years of eligibility. Saturday also came with acknowledgement from UH coach Gib Arnold that freshmen Manroop Clair and Ozren Pavlovic will not return for their sophomore seasons. This shouldn’t come as a shocker to anyone who followed the program. Clair […]

Return home = return to form?

By Brian McInnis on January 14, 2013

Hey all, there won’t be a UH hoops story in Tuesday’s edition of the newspaper. Thus, I figured it’s a good time to use the blog format to help answer some of the burning questions some of you have had based on the road losses at UC Irvine and Long Beach State last week. UH (9-7, 3-2) plays at home vs Pacific (9-7, 3-1) on Thursday and UC Davis (5-10, 1-3) on Saturday. A 2-0 week would vault the fourth-place […]

Getting the point

By Brian McInnis on October 14, 2012

One of the most interesting storylines around the Hawaii men’s basketball team all season will be point guard play. Jace Tavita has assumed the mantle of the starter after coming in from Utah nearly two years ago and redshirting since that time. Barring something drastic, he’ll get the bulk of the time at the position. But you can’t, obviously, have him responsible for all 40 minutes every game of the season. With no other traditional point guards on the roster […]

The 'Roop Appears

By Brian McInnis on July 26, 2012

It’s been a long time coming, but Manroop Clair finally made his College Summer League debut on Thursday night for league leader Flipbooks Hawaii. It probably wasn’t the introduction to his long-range skills any UH fan had in mind in the 128-93 blowout of Central Medical … but at least the UH freshman guard got on the court. Some. Clair, by my count, went 1-for-7 for three points (a lone swished 3) in about 9 minutes of total play time. […]

Rupp moves on // More on Clair

By Brian McInnis on May 4, 2012

Hawaii director of basketball operations Kerry Rupp is leaving that position to take a full assistant job with Wayne Tinkle’s staff at Montana, he confirmed on Friday. This is unsurprising. Rupp as a DOBO was always a curious arrangement, to say the least. The former four-year LaTech head coach made the best of his reduced role — day-to-day and travel arrangements, primarily — and leaves with well wishes from Gib Arnold and the other UH coaches after a single year here. […]

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