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Reyes no-go for summer league

By Brian McInnis on June 26, 2014

One of the three 2014-15 Hawaii men’s basketball signees, big man Sammis Reyes, will more than likely not appear in the College Summer League in Manoa, which begins on Saturday. If the Rainbow Warriors are fortunate, that’s where the disappointment will end and the Chilean will arrive on time for the fall semester. I received a tip that Reyes has some work to do before he can make it out here from prep school. So I asked him on Thursday […]

Another ex-Missouri visitor

By Brian McInnis on December 17, 2013

The Hawaii basketball team is looking to add to its stockpile of ex-Missouri players. Former Tiger forward Stefan Jankovic (not to be confused with current Rainbow Warrior Stefan Jovanovic) is inbound to make an official visit to the Manoa campus. Should he commit, he’ll follow in the footsteps of Negus Webster-Chan, who is redshirting at UH as a Division I transfer from MU. Like Webster-Chan, Jankovic is from Ontario, Canada. Like Jovanovic, Jankovic was born in Serbia. He has two years of […]

Green & White rewind

By Brian McInnis on October 22, 2013

Hawaii basketball’s Green & White Scrimmage experiment on Saturday wasn’t perfect (it could have used game jerseys that were, you know, green and white), but it was a fair platform to introduce the 2013-14 Rainbow Warriors without any set national date for Midnight Madness events this year. There was more actual basketball action than you could ask for in previous iterations of the Ohana Hoopfest/Twilight Ohana/Midnight Ohana. The crowd of about 1,000 was also respectable, and the team and coaches […]

2013 Summer League postmortem

By Brian McInnis on August 13, 2013

As College Summer Leagues go, this one was quite memorable. The crowds were consistently good, there was always someone or something interesting to watch on a nightly basis, and you couldn’t have asked for a better venue for the playoffs at Maryknoll’s new gym. Now that the 37th running of the league is over and Julian Sensley and Wealth Strategy Partners won the championship (88-78 over top-seeded Central Medical Clinic on Saturday), let’s look back at how the 2013-14 University […]

Summer league final set

By Brian McInnis on August 9, 2013

We have our title match in place. In the first of two College Summer League semifinals at Maryknoll, Julian Sensley uncorked a vintage 33-point performance to lead Wealth Strategy Partners over defending champion Solar Universe, 94-86. In the second semi, top-seeded Central Medical Clinic was surgical late in an 85-67 win over Clark Hatch Fitness. Bill Amis scored 21 points in the victory, in which CMC had to rally from an eight-point halftime deficit. No. 1 Central Medical Clinic (8-3) […]

Shamburger showing the touch

By Brian McInnis on July 30, 2013

A discouraging College Summer League debut a few weeks ago is a distant memory for Keith Shamburger. The Hawaii basketball team’s starting-point-guard-in-waiting has flourished in his recent games for Clark Hatch Fitness, most recently uncorking a 22-point night on Tuesday in a 119-82 blowout of outmanned Grantco Pacific. He’s been given the keys to the Clark Hatch offense, which has resulted in five straight wins since an 0-4 start. He’s clicked on the go with CHF teammates Kaunaoa McGee and […]

They're (getting) here

By Brian McInnis on July 6, 2013

At least some of the new and returning Hawaii hoops players will be in action tonight at the Manoa Park Gym for the College Summer League. It’s not 100 percent certain which players will and won’t be there Saturday night, but at least some should. Based on the initial league rosters, the Rainbow Warriors who might be watchable tonight are: 6 p.m. game, Wealth Strategy Partners vs. Grantco Pacific: Caleb Dressler 7:30 game, National Fire Protection vs. Central Medical Clinic: […]

Summer League Tuesday Lite

By Brian McInnis on July 25, 2012

I’ll say up front I wasn’t able to get to the Manoa District Park gym until the second half of the second College Summer League game tonight, so my observations were limited. The first game was an absolute shootout, won 131-129 by Central Medical Clinic over Solar Universe. However, CMC had only two or three players at the start of the game and had to borrow a few from Solar … which ended up costing Artie Wilson’s team a win. […]

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