Whether it was for Christmas, Hannukah or the end of a four-game losing streak, there was much to celebrate Sunday morning for the University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team.
For the Warriors and their fans, the long-awaited gift was earned via a sound 60-46 victory over Southern Mississippi for seventh place in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic.
A sparse-but-appreciative Stan Sheriff Center crowd of about 2,000 and a national TV audience on ESPNU watched Jack Purchase score a game-high 17 points and Gibson Johnson add 10 points and five rebounds as UH snapped its four-game losing streak to improve to 5-7.