Tonight will be the final regular season home game for the University of Hawai‘i Rainbow Wahine basketball team, which will be sending off five seniors. Hawai‘i (10-18, 4-11 Western Athletic Conference) will play host to the Utah State Aggies (15-12,
Tonight will be the final regular season home game for the University of Hawai‘i Rainbow Wahine basketball team, which will be sending off five seniors.
Hawai‘i (10-18, 4-11 Western Athletic Conference) will play host to the Utah State Aggies (15-12, 9-5 WAC), tipping off at 7 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center.
After the game, the Senior Night festivities will honor the departures of Mai Ayabe, Julita Bungaite, Allie Patterson, Megan Tinnin and Keisha Kanekoa.
Kanekoa is the team’s second-leading scorer, averaging 11.3 points a night, while leading the Wahine with 3.4 assists per game.
Tinnin ranks fourth on the team with both 9.1 points and 4.0 rebounds, and has nailed a team-high 46 3-pointers on the season.
Those two, along with Patterson (3.4 ppg), Bungaite (2.7 ppg) and Ayabe (1.8 ppg) make up 47 percent of the team’s scoring (60.1 ppg).
The final game could determine if UH makes it into next week’s WAC Tournament in Las Vegas. The Wahine currently sit in seventh place in the conference, with the top eight making the tournament.
A victory over Utah State would clinch a spot, while one more loss by San Jose State (2-25, 2-12) in its final two games would also send UH to Vegas.
The Aggies beat UH in their first meeting this season, a 52-40 win in Logan, Utah.
The Wahine are coming off an 83-70 loss to the Fresno State Bulldogs, who are currently in second in the WAC standings.
Louisiana Tech (13-1) holds a one-game lead in the conference, followed by Fresno State (12-2), Utah State (9-5), Nevada (9-6), Idaho (6-8), New Mexico State (6-8), Hawai‘i (4-11), Boise State (3-11) and San Jose State (2-11).
The game will be shown live on KFVE, then rebroadcast at 10:30 p.m.
ESPN 1420 AM will carry the radio broadcast.
