It’s probably fitting that a relatively unknown University of Hawai’i basketball team will open its 2016-17 season against three relatively unknown opponents.
The Warriors, who have 10 newcomers and zero returning starters among the 14 players on the active roster, will open the season by hosting Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Friday night. That will be followed by games against Texas State on Sunday, November 13, and then Florida Atlantic on Monday, November 14. All of those games are part of the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic.
Hawai’i played Florida Atlantic once – in 1999 – and has never faced SIU-Edwardsville or Texas State.