Roderick Bobbitt went coast-to-coast and softly layed in the ball off the glass with 1.4 seconds remaining early Tuesday morning to lift Hawai’i to a thrilling 76-75 victory over Nevada and the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic championship.
An energetic and vocal “Blackout” crowd of 2,143 at the Stan Sheriff Center and a national ESPN2 TV audience braved the 11 p.m. Monday tip-off and watched the Rainbow Warriors improve to 3-0 when the final horn sounded at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday. The Wolf Pack fell to 2-1.
“If you study the history of this program and this event — and we all should — then I think we can say we just witnessed one of the greatest games,” UH coach Eran Ganot said.