The University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team’s journey through the Big West Conference regular season schedule ended up being a 50-50 proposition: In a mathematical oddity, the Warriors finished at 8-8 (.500) by beating each of the league’s other eight teams once, and also losing to each of the league’s other eight teams once.
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That makes any of UH’s potential three upcoming games in the Big West Conference Tournament a rubber match with increasingly higher stakes, starting with Thursday’s 4 p.m. (Hawai’i Standard Time) quarterfinal showdown with UC Irvine at the Honda Center in Anaheim.