Practice time for the University of Hawai’i’s 100th men’s basketball season officially opened Saturday afternoon with little fanfare and lots of new looks, even from returning players.
Noticeably absent at the Stan Sheriff Center were last year’s three graduating seniors — Sheriff Drammeh, Brocke Stepteau and Jack Purchase — as well as former associate head coach Adam Jacobsen, all of whom had been fixtures in the program’s previous four seasons. Not to mention former athletic trainer Jayson “Jay” Goo, who had been working with UH basketball the past four decades.
Making their official practice debuts were new assistant coach Chris Gerlufsen, freshmen Justin Webster, Jessiya Villa, Bernardo Da Silva, Garrett Cason, Kameron Ng and senior transfer Ahmed Ali.