If the 100th season of University of Hawai’i men’s basketball follows the lead of Thursday night’s classy and festive Tip-Off event, then the next five months promise to be quite grand.
The fourth annual banquet and auction (both silent plus live) at the Stan Sheriff Center was yet another sellout with around 500 people in attendance, and again reportedly raised well over $100,000 thanks in large part to major sponsors Hawaiian Airlines and Bank of Hawai’i and the hard work of a volunteer committee led by dedicated supporter Sydney Hamada.
“If we’re going to be a big-time program, we gotta act like a big-time program,” Warriors coach Eran Ganot said.