The University of Hawai’i basketball team is picked to finish sixth (out of nine teams) in the 2018-19 Big West Conference Preseason Poll.
Results of the 24-member media poll were announced on Thursday.
UC Irvine received 10 of the 24 first-place votes and is picked to finish first. The Anteaters return all five starters from last season.
Cal State Fullerton, which won last season’s Big West Conference Tournament and represented the conference in the NCAA Tournament, received four first-place votes and is picked second.
UC Davis, which was the regular-season champion last season, received six first-place votes and is picked third.