Boys basketball

Maryknoll collected eight first-place votes to remain No. 1 in the Star-Advertiser Boys Basketball Top 10 on Monday. The Spartans (19-2, 5-1 Interscholastic League of Honolulu) arrived at the top spot a week ago for the first time this season. Off the heels of a 55-49 win over then-No. 1 Punahou on Dec. 12, Maryknoll fought off Mid-Pacific 37-18 last week. The first five teams in the rankings remained in place: Maryknoll, ‘Iolani, Damien and Farrington. Kailua moved up a […]

Noted earlier in the season that there are a few teams, very few, that can be unique when the ledger is explored. Kaiser. The girls team is in the state tourney after qualifying for the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I semifinals. They’ve lost to just about every Top 10 opponent they’ve faced, most by single-digit margins, and beaten almost every foe who is unranked. The Kaiser Lady Cougars are the girls basketball litmus test, or at least one of them. […]

The OIA will have an allotment of five state-tournament berths in Division I boys basketball this season, losing a spot form its usual six, according to Hawaii High School Athletic Association executive director Chris Chun. With St. Francis moving up from D-II to D-I, the ILH now has seven teams in the higher classification. The breakdown of total number of teams in D-I, by league, looks like this Division I boys basketball KIF: 0 ILH: 7 OIA: 14 MIL: 5 […]

The numbers weren’t so shiny for No. 2 Punahou. The grit certainly was there in abundance. Down eight points in the third quarter, Punahou went on an 18-3 run to seize the lead, and No. 3 ‘Iolani missed two layup tries in the final seconds as the Buffanblu escaped with a 57-56 win at Hemmeter Fieldhouse on Thursday night. The comeback was especially explosive as Jakob Kimura scored 10 of his 23 points during the third quarter. That turned a […]

When the Kamehameha Warriors hired Larry Park in the offseason to become their boys varsity head coach, old-timers and former Warriors were among the few who knew the name. Park coached under legendary James Winchester in the 1990s, part of a coaching tree that includes former Kamehameha head coaches Jesse Nakanishi and Julian Nakanishi. Winchester’s strategic use of fullcourt defensive pressure was a key to the Warriors’ state championship season in 1992, and when Jesse Nakanishi was head coach later, […]