Schedule quirks and more on Valdes and Bobbitt

Big West Conference action gets underway this week. Each of the nine teams in the conference, including Hawai’i, will play 16 games over the next nine weeks.

Perhaps every team in the conference can make an argument that the conference schedule does not work in their favor. Hawai’i, of course, is no exception.

In particular, six of the eight teams visiting Hawai’i will get extra time off either before or after playing the Warriors in Honolulu.

This week is an example. Hawai’i will open the conference season by hosting Cal Poly on a Wednesday (instead of the usual Thursday). Normally, that would seem to work in favor of the home team, but there’s this – Hawai’i played a game on Saturday…