Gritty, balanced, exciting, and under adverse conditions. The same words that have been used to describe this amazing season for the University of Hawai’i basketball team came into play again in a fitting regular-season home finale that had the Warriors topping CSUN, 89-78.
A sellout “White-Out” crowd (10,300 tickets issued, 9,103 through turnstiles) at the Stan Sheriff Center watched the Warriors improve to 23-4 overall and remain alone atop the Big West Conference at 12-2.
“The energy was electric – you could feel it in the crowd,” head coach Eran Ganot said. “It was three things, almost – the responding from a tough loss Thursday, Senior Night, obviously a lot at stake.