The reality of a brand new season was established in all of one game for the University of Hawai’i basketball team.
An inexperienced and shallow Warriors’ roster looked the part in a 69-68 loss to Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Friday night.
A “Green Out” crowd of 5,423 at the Stan Sheriff Center watched the Warriors drop their 2016-17 season opener, just eight months after a historic 2015- 16 season ended with a school-record 28 victories.
“We got a ways to go,” head coach Eran Ganot said. “Unfortunately, sometimes, you have to learn the hard way. You don’t want to learn the hard way, but sometimes you have to.