The most bizarre season in NCAA basketball history certainly had its effects on the University of Hawai’i basketball team.
In what will forever be known as “the COVID season,” the Rainbow Warriors finished the 2020-21 campaign with an 11-10 record after their quarterfinal loss to UC Riverside in the Air Force Reserve Big West Conference Championship Tournament, presented by the Hawaiian Islands.
That the Warriors were able to play 21 games – including nine road games during a time when all out-of-state travel was considered “risky” due to the virus – was an accomplishment in itself.