Couple of things.
Shoji on UNI getting in: Brian (Gimmillaro) is going to be mad. I agree that The Beach should have gotten in over some teams who were under .500 in the conference.

Corbelli is not a Hawaii native, which I take to mean born here. He was not but spent most of his young life here. Punahou 1974 as mentioned.

OCSports may not go because of the cost. They likely only have the first round match since Saturday’s final likely picked up by the SEC Network.

Tournament not supposed to be about making yet they continue to use the ‘regional pod’ excuse to save expenses. While it looks to be cheaper to send Hawaii to the mainland (1 team) as opposed to sending 3 teams to Hawaii, I believe the NCAA would have come out ahead had they done so.

Sad that Creighton didn’t put in a bid, perhaps too worried about hosting the final four in two weeks. They were part of the San Diego regional. Would have made so much more sense to give Hawaii the subregional with who ever won that a simple trip to San Diego.

As for Mitchem, likely on this trip although not cleared to play.
Think it continues to be odd that people keep mentioning Mitchem not being in pictures when we knew she wasn’t on the trip where they clinched the BWC title. Those were ‘in the moment’ pictures but maybe they’ll photo shop her in at some point.

And can we stop using the term ‘haole’ in such a disparaging manner? Thank you.

Anyway, starting a new thread.
http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=34637

you keep using this term “politically correct” but I don’t think it means what you think it means.

IMO, TMO will be the x-factor throughout this tournament. If she plays smart and not try to power all her sets past/through/over the blocks, she will have an outstanding game.

LET’S GO BOWS.

Of course the winner of the MVC Tournament received the automatic bid, but the No. 2 seed (Southern Illinois), No. 3 seed (Missouri State), and No. 4 seed (UNI) all were recognized with NCAA at-large bids.

And as Na Wahine beat the MVC champ — Wichita State — in a nonconference match early in the season, what does that tell you about the strength of the UH!

I predict the final four to be:

USC vs. Washintgon
Hawaii vs. Wisconsin

USC vs. Hawaii.

I think our block will take out Ford and their middles. Abercrombie and Bricio will be tough stop. I think especially Abercrombie being the leftie opposite. But I think we can and will win this year. The race is so wide open and Hawaii has it in them to do it this year.