A scrappy effort on defense Tuesday evening could not overcome another slow start and cold shooting for the University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team in a 68-57 loss to Seton Hall on the opening day of the FS1 Pearl Harbor Invitational at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
A mostly uniformed military crowd of about 1,200 at historic Bloch Arena and national TV audience watched Brocke Stepteau score a career-high 17 points off the bench and Gibson Johnson add 12 points and seven rebounds to lead the Rainbow Warriors, who dropped to 4-4. Seton Hall, the defending Big East Conference champion, improved to 6-2.