{"id":4132,"date":"2026-11-09T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T01:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2026-11-10T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:52:12","slug":"warriors-turn-back-texas-arlington-71-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/warriors-turn-back-texas-arlington-71-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors turn back Texas-Arlington, 71-62"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawai’i center Zack Davidson scored a team-high 21 points, grabbed six rebounds, blocked one shot and made one assist Sunday evening to help the Warriors hold off visiting Texas-Arlington, 71-62, in the second round of the 60th Annual Outrigger Rainbow Classic. (Brandon Flores Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

University of Hawai’i head coach Eran Ganlot’s career win Number 200 over Bethesda on Friday was nice and easy, but No. 201 just two nights later was a lot more challenging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a rocky first half that ended up tied at 27-27, the Warriors shifted into the next gear and held off visiting Texas-Arlington, 71-62, Sunday evening in the second round of the 60th Annual Outrigger Rainbow Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A supported crowd of 2,465 in BankOh Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched center Zack Davidson score a team-high 21 points with six rebounds and fellow post Bol Dengdit add 15 points and five boards as UH improved to 3-0 and advanced to tonight’s 7 p.m. championship game versus Portland (2-1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dynamic guard Tristan Hankins finished with a game-high 23 points with five rebounds and backcourt mate Mier Panoam added 10 points and four boards for the Mavericks, who fell to 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight’s title game between the Warriors and Pilots will be televised live statewide by K5, and broadcast on radio via ESPN Honolulu AM1500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawai’i opened the tournament with a resounding 116-44 rout of Bethesda, but Texas-Arlington proved to be a much stronger opponent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Warriors jumped out to leads of 11-2, 13-3 and 19-6 in the game’s first 12 minutes, but the Mavericks clamped down and clawed their way back to eventually move ahead 27-26 on Jerimiyah Smith’s 3-pointer with 57 seconds remaining in the first half. Tanner Cuff made one of two free throws 10 seconds later to tie it at 27-27, and that is how the score stood at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Give credit to those guys, we have a lot of respect for UTA, they’re coming off an 18-win season and had a great win over a good Portland team, and they fought back (tonight),” Ganot said. “This was a unique game, because I thought it was beautiful and ugly, a lot more ugly. Sometimes you’ve heard the old cliche, ‘You gotta win in different ways.’ (But) you don’t often go from beautiful to ugly, just like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I thought the first five minutes, the passion we played with at all three levels, complementary basketball — offense was flowing, the defense was really effective, the rebounding and the sharing and all that stuff. And then … I think we missed some wide-open 3’s, we missed some layups around the rim, and then it becomes how do you handle that? We lived and died by the 3 a little bit there, because we started forcing the issue offensively, rather than continue to get the good shots. Which gave them life, because good teams take advantage, and then we were not defending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“(The Mavericks) amped up their deal. But we compounded the problem.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UTA opened the second half with a 6-2 run to go up, 33-29, and still led at 43-40 after a 3-point make by Hankins with 12:21 remaining in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Davidson converted two free throws to start UH on a 22-5 run capped by Jaden Matingou’s slam dunk to push the Warriors ahead, 62-48, with 4:24 to go. Teodore Simic answered with a 3-pointer to start a mini 8-2 run culminating in Simic’s free throw to close it to 64-58 with 1:23 on the clock, but Dengdit, Trujillo and Hampton combined to sink sveen of eight free throws down the stretch to seal the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“(We) forced 17 turnovers, I think that’s big-time for us on the defensive end,” said Warriors guard Jaden Matingou, who scored 12 points to go with three steals and two rebounds. “Just disrupting (opponents), I feel like that’s starting to become a piece of our identity, is turning teams over, and that allows us to play in transition, play more free against an offset defense. That was really good for us.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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University of Hawai’i head coach Eran Ganlot’s career win Number 200 over Bethesda on Friday was nice and easy, but No. 201 just two nights later was a lot more challenging. After a rocky first half that ended up tied at 27-27, the Warriors shifted into the next gear and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}