5 1/2 point favorites which reflects the records, but probably doesn’t account for our inactivity (and which players were/are affected by COVID)

good luck to Paul. Hawkins talked very highly of him, and his rise up the ranks

Are we just hitting our stride late in the season?

they even covered up the vending machines outside the locker rooms last game! One guy near us got reprimanded for eating smuggled peanuts.

they can look to Squire for a ‘grass not always greener’ case. Playing 27 minutes (about the same as here),, averaging 10 a game (similar) for a 8-17 Portland State team in 7th in the Big Sky. Had would have really helped us

from what I’ve seen, 7 healthy players are required. I think we played one with 7 of our normal guys suited, along with one other guy I couldn’t identify (redshirt? Walk on?)

Since our short handed games featured our 5 starters and 2 key reserves, you’d have to think effected players include a few of those 7. Hopefully, they were too effected by the virus.

I’m expecting a sloppy effort from us from lack of activity. Hope I’m wrong. Looking forward to standing in the long concession line!

this is kind of a sleazy article, putting names out there who haven’t joined the portal. I’m sure ‘recruiting’ like this is going on all over the place, but it just seems wrong

the other part of ‘bad luck’ is missing shine game vs last place Poly, and playing them short handed after a long layoff.

bad luck? I think, but not sure, that only last 3 were called by us. The others were bad timing of us hitting teams in the schedule when they had cases. Again, I’m not positive that the others before these last 3 weren’t due to us

I believe we’ve had 8 cancelled?

And now this weeks poly game on Thursday is cancelled

i remember their fans knew more about our team than we did!

I clearly remember a quote like ‘you all have some good players but you all need some more brothers’ Very enlightened!

I also remember they had a HUGE semi with tesm colors that drove cross country with their gear! They were way ahead of us financially, despite playing a mostly JC schedule

my wife just wants concessions back at the basketball games!

i think they practice with as many 'healthy' players as possible. that's what we were doing before, often practicing with 7-8 guys.

as for your 'must be devastated'........i get worried that someone gets worn down by the restrictions/cancellations and decides to test the transfer waters. i wonder if the players who tested positive were asymptomatic but caught by regular testing?

does the 25 have to be regular games? We’ll have (fingers crossed) 23 plus whatever the BWC tournament brings.

I thought we suited up 8 guys v CSUN; would have to think some of the starters are part of this wave

Really sad. Finely get a few games in a row, playing better and BOOM another week off

Williams mentioned the turnovers when I watched today. I had forgotten about the ones others than Pepper’s two in a row. But there was a travel down low, ball off the forehead, offensive foul and Anigwe steal….I might have missed a couple more! Points off turnovers 12-0!

What was frustrating at the beginning of second half was the breaks Hawaii was getting. There were 3-4 possessions where we really defended well and they still got 3 points. Forced a bad shot, they got rebound and 3 point play. Anigwe blocks the big guy down low, he retrieved it and hoisted a 3. Those seem to zap our energy…until their sloppy play let us back in.

I watched the second half this morning; that was fun! I’m not sure how refs determined to put click at 7:40 after the malfunction since it looks like possession clock stopped.

I would imagine Hawaii fans watching complain about our announcers being homers! Marsh gets pretty amped up during our run

ba and shaw were both suited up.

Something overlooked ; Les subbed offense (Anigwe) for defense ((Adebayo) the last minute knowing Hawaii needed 3’s. Paid off big time with that block!

he had two drives in the second half that were incredible but somehow the ball rolled out. His energy and Pepper’s dagger 3’s really got the crowd back in it.

Agree with your assessment on Desrosiers. Didn’t seem like he ever missed. We were sitting high above our bench so didn’t have a great view of Hawaii’s offense in the second half, BUT, both AgAlum and I thought he was pretty liberal with his elbows when trying to establish position. Sneaky French-Canadian!

The officiating crew was weak, in my opinion. I’ve been happy with the BWC crews this season but this crew never seemed to click. Let alot of contact go inside and then little ticky-tack stuff far from the bucket. They were in the bonus with 12:00 to go which I thought would kill us. Both benches seemed upset and confused.