Let’s get straight to the point: The University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team has three new good ones.
First-year Warriors JoVon McClanahan, Biwali Bayles and Noel Coleman have collectively been tasked with filling the shoes of three-year starting point guard Drew Buggs, who set the program’s career assist record before transferring to Missouri last spring. And after an understandably tenuous start, the three newcomers are increasingly showing that they are more than capable of doing the job.
Leading the way is McClanahan, a 5-foot-11 sophomore who has started the past four games and scored three points, dished seven assists, made two steals and grabbed two rebounds with zero turnovers in last Saturday’s 81-64 home victory over Cal Poly.