UH basketball loses season opener
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville outlasted host Hawaii 69-68 in the college basketball season opener for both teams tonight at the Stan Sheriff Center.
UH had a chance, in-bounding with 4.3 seconds left on the SIUE side of the court. But the Cougars’ Burak Eslik came up with a ball knocked out of the hands of the Rainbow Warriors’ Sheriff Drammeh as the final buzzer sounded.
Tre Harris led the visitors with 13 points, including a 3-pointer for a 68-66 lead with 2:22 left.
Drammeh, the only regular playing rotation holdover from UH’s NCAA Tournament team of a year ago, scored 17, including a basket to tie the game at 68 with 2:07 left.
But the Cougars’ Carlos Anderson hit a free throw for the final score with 1:19 left, after 13 ties and 11 lead changes.
UCLA transfer Noah Allen led a late surge and scored a game- and career-high 21 points for Hawaii.
A late-night gathering announced at 5,423 saw a game full of long scoring runs and droughts by both teams until the back-and-forth final few minutes.
Allen hit a 12-foot bank shot with a second left in the first half to give UH a 38-36 lead going into intermission.
Hawaii had frittered away a 34-22 lead and went scoreless for 4 minutes, 27 seconds, until Drammeh’s 15-footer stopped SIUE’s 12-point run and put the Rainbows back in front.
Keenan Simmons’ putback then retied it at 36-all before Allen’s halftime buzzer-beater.
Harris scored 10 points in four minutes for the Cougars before sitting the rest of the first half with two fouls.
Ido Flaisher led UH with nine of his 13 points in the first half, with Drammeh and Allen both adding eight.
SIUE went up 57-46 with 9:31 left in the game, but Hawaii came back, with Allen scoring eight in an 18-4 run that gave UH a one-point lead with 4:49 to go.
The Rainbows turned the ball over 19 times
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What a total and complete embarrassment with lousy coaching. SIUe only won 6 games last
season with a BPI rank of 319, lost its exhibition game to a lower division team, and is
projected to finish in LAST place in their conference. They’re probably the weakest Div I
team on the schedule. This is what was forewarned by those who know and understand Basketball.
And what did they say, first opening season loss in 8 years.
Ganot’s defense: give opponent an uncontested outside shot and hope they miss.
Get used to it, these are all Ganot’s recruits and his coaching, so long as he remains as
HC. He got a raise and extension for this embarassment? Don’t buy the excuses like they
gave for Chow. They can’t name 1 top recruit who turned us down because of the post-
season ban.
You could save a lot of time by just posting “see last comment”. You’re a broken record.
Thanks for the statistical information. Go Bows!
quick…call the waaambulance!
So what’s your point?
Yeah, you expected them to be the same team as last season? With so many newcomers on the team, we all knew it was going to take time before the team gels and learns how to win. That’s just reality and there’s no magic wand to make this team suddenly decent after being decimated of talent.
no embarrassment here, 10 newcomers and there will be growing pains so all you naysayers who make stu__d comments just keep it to yourself. so stop complaining its early yet.
there is potential, but it’s going to be a long season.
they have to work on their perimeter shooting and 3 pointers and perimeter defense.
Leading 43-22 followed by a scoring drought of 4 min. 27 sec., and 17 turnovers spell loss; and to lose by one point?, Auwe that hurts.
It is infuriating that the NCAA dragged their feet until the season was upon us to make a decision. They purposely allowed the team to be decimated. What the NCAA has done is outrageous. NOW they are going to take another look?! UH should sue.
Totally agree. The penalty imposed is not valid when comparing what goes on across our nation.
NCAA is very much like our political system: corrupt and does not conform to the spirit of equality from 1 school to another and from 1 point of infraction to another (depending on the school).
Let’s give Ganot another raise and extension. Lol I’m still feeling the pain of what they did to Benji . Hope they can get it together quick !
Benji! Really!
Benji did it to himself. If you want to feel bad for somebody, how about Jim Donovan. He took the brunt of that episode.
The 69-68 score shows Hawaii has great potential.
uh made a grave mistake at the end when they had the ball a few seconds before the end of the game. they should have driven to the basket instead of trying to shoot from the outside, a higher percentage shot and they might be a foul with two shoots. this was a no brainer, but why the coaches did not do this is beyond me.