After a disappointing Christmas game, the University of Hawai’i basketball team can still finish the year on a positive note when it hosts Maine on Sunday.
The Rainbow Warriors are 8-5 following a fourth-place finish at the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. They ended the three-day tournament with a 70-53 loss to Georgia Tech on Christmas Day. Prior to that, No. 21 Washington beat Hawai’i, 72-61.
The Warriors were particularly dismal shooting the ball in those two losses, connecting on just 31.4 percent of their field goal attempts. More telling they went 10 for 54 (18.5 percent) from 3-point range.