Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball

The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball team represents the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in NCAA men's competition. (women's sports teams at the school are known as "Rainbow Wahine"). The team currently competes in the Big West Conference after leaving its longtime home of the Western Athletic Conference in July 2012.

The team's most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was in 2016, with them getting their first NCAA Tournament victory that same year as well. The Rainbow Warriors are coached by Eran Ganot.

Postseason history

NCAA tournament results

The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in five NCAA tournaments. Their combined record is 1–5. Number in parentheses is opponent's seed in tournament. The Rainbow Warriors' first tournament appearance with seeds (The NCAA started seeding teams with the 1978 tournament, with the seeding format used today beginning in 1979) was in 1994.

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1972	N/A	First Round	Weber State	L 64–91
1994	13	First Round	(4) No. 15 Syracuse	L 78–92
2001	12	First Round	(5) No. 17 Syracuse	L 69–79
2002	10	First Round	(7) No. 22 Xavier	L 58–70
2016	13	First Round Second Round	(4) No. 23 California (5) No. 18 Maryland	W 77–66 L 60–73

NIT results

The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in eight National Invitational Tournaments (NIT). Their combined record is 10–8.

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1971	First Round Quarterfinals	Oklahoma St. Bonaventure	W 88–87 L 64–73
1974	First Round Quarterfinals	Fairfield Purdue	W 66–65 L 72–85
1989	First Round	California	L 57–73
1990	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Stanford Long Beach State New Mexico	W 69–57 W 84–79 L 58–80
1997	First Round Second Round	Oregon UNLV	W 71–61 L 80–89
1998	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Arizona State Gonzaga Fresno State	W 90–73 W 78–70 L 83–85
2003	First Round Second Round	UNLV Minnesota	W 85–68 L 70–84
2004	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Utah State Nebraska Michigan	W 85–74 W 84–83 L 73–88

CIT results

The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in two CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). They have a combined record of 1–2.

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2011	First Round Second Round	Portland San Francisco	W 76–64 L 74–77
2013	First Round	Air Force	L 65–69

NAIA tournament results

The Rainbow Warriors have appeared in the NAIA Tournament one time. Their combined record is 0–1.

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1949

First Round

North Dakota

L 53–70

Coaches

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Dave Crawford	1918–1919	2–5	.286
Edward Williford	1919–1920	2–5	.286
Otto Klum	1921–1923	13–8	.619
Charles Jones	1923–1926	12–11	.522
Leslie Harrison	1926–1929	12–10	.545
Claude Swann	1929–1930	3–4	.429
Eugene Gill	1930–1941	88–47	.652
Bert Chan Wa	1941–1942, 1946–1947	12–13	.480
Art Gallon	1947–1951	83–37	.692
Al Saake	1951–1954, 1957–1963	92–124	.426
Ah Chew Goo	1954–1957	31–46	.403
Red Rocha	1963–1973	112–136	.452
Bruce O'Neil	1973–1976	42–32	.568
Rick Pitino	1976	2–4	.333
Larry Little	1976–1985	103–143	.419
Frank Arnold	1985–1987	11–45	.452
Riley Wallace	1987–2007	334–265	.558
Bob Nash	2007–2010	34–56	.378
Gib Arnold	2010–2014	72–55	.567
Benjy Taylor	2014–2015	22–13	.629
Eran Ganot	2016–present	171–118	Template:Winning percentage

Notable players

Retired numbers

The Rainbow Warriors retired their first number in program history on February 15, 2020, honoring number 33 for UH great and coach Bob Nash.

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width=40px style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle" | No.	width=150px style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle" |Player	width=40px style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle" |Pos.	width=100px style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle" |Career	width= px style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle" |No. ret.	width= px style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle" |Ref.
33	Bob Nash	SF	1970–1972	2020

All-Americans

• 1971–1972: Bob Nash (Third team – "Basketball News", Honorable Mention – UPI, AP, Universal Sports)
• 1972–1973: Tom Henderson (Honorable Mention – NBA Coaches, Sporting News, Basketball Weekly)
• 1973–1974: Tom Henderson (First Team – Sporting News, NBA Coaches, Street & Smith's Basketball Yearbook, Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation) (Second Team – Basketball Weekly, Universal Sports), (Third Team- AP), (Honorable Mention-UPI)
• 1995–1996: Anthony Harris (Honorable Mention – Basketball Weekly)
• 1996–1997: Anthony Carter (Honorable Mention – AP)
• 1997–1998: Anthony Carter (Honorable Mention – AP)
• 2001–2002: Predrag Savović (Honorable Mention – AP)

NBA draft

• 1971: Tom Newell – Round 10 – Phoenix Suns
• 1972: Bob Nash – Round 1 – Detroit Pistons
• 1972: Dwight Holiday – Round 9 – Seattle SuperSonics
• 1973: John Penebacker – Round 13 – Cleveland Cavaliers
• 1974: Tom Henderson – Round 1 – Atlanta Hawks
• 1975: Jimmie Baker – Round 3 – Philadelphia 76ers
• 1975: Victor Kelly – Round 10 – Atlanta Hawks
• 1976: Tom Barker – Round 4 – Atlanta Hawks
• 1981: Aaron Strayhorn – Round 6 – Cleveland Cavaliers
• 1982: Clarence Dickerson – Round 5 – Washington Bullets
• 1989: Reggie Cross – Round 2 – Philadelphia 76ers

NBA free agents

• Anthony Carter
• Trevor Ruffin
• Predrag Savović

NBA champions

• Phil Handy
• Tom Henderson

EuroLeague and international players

• Jared Dillinger
• Carl English
• Isaac Fotu
• Stefan Janković
• Vander Joaquim
• Matt Lojeski
• Sammis Reyes (born 1995), Chilean player who played for the Chilean national basketball team and later switched to American football by the 2020s
• Christian Standhardinger
• Aaron Valdes (born 1993)
• Luc-Arthur Vebobe
• Brandon Jawato
• Akira Jacobs, Team Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Facilities

The Rainbow Warriors play at the 10,300 seat Stan Sheriff Center, which opened in 1994. Originally called the "Special Events Arena" it was renamed in 1998 after Stan Sheriff, the former UH Athletics Director, who had lobbied for its construction. Previously, the team had played from 1964–1994 at the 7,500 seat Neal S. Blaisdell Center (originally the Honolulu International Center) and prior to that at the "Otto "Proc" Klum Gymnasium".

See also

• Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball