SPOKANE, Wash. — For this University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team that has been up, over and around a long mountain range of adversity, it has always been as much about the journey as the destination.
Those two worlds have now climactically connected, as the Rainbow Warriors’ long, tumultuous but inspiring journey has brought them to the Promised Land, now identified as Spokane, Wash. — site of Friday’s 8 a.m. (Hawai’i Time) NCAA Tournament first-round game against California.
The game will be televised live nationally on TBS, and the UH players are determined to keep the journey going.