For the first time ever, I'm invited to a preseason tournament. We're the 2 seed in the
Hukilau Tournament.
We go a disappointing 0 for 2 in our initial recruiting efforts and it looks like it's going to be a terrible year with four scholarships to fill.
Not a great camp either for our new guys, but
Rainier Roussell has weak enough competition that he's able to secure the starting center spot anyway.
Hukilau Tournament
We guarantee at least a second place that matches our seeding (it's a small four-team tournament) by beating
Winthrop 78-68. They shot 51.1%, but we rode
Alvaro Houghton (27 points, 2 steals) and
Sid Johnson (18 points, 5 rebounds, a steal) to the win.
Then we get an even uglier 63-51 victory over
North Texas to take home the trophy.
Arthur Rodriguez scores 18 with 6 rebounds as PotG and
Heath Wagstaff puts up a tremendous 8 points, 15 rebounds off the bench.
It's the Pilots' first ever trophy in universe history and our RPI is at a ridiculous 8.
All five starters score 8 or more points, highlighted by
Sid Johnson's 20 points and 2 steals in a 74-51 rout of
Idaho.
Gary Hine scores 10 off the bench.
Colgate shoots 59.5%, we shoot under 40%. Yeah, you already know how that game went. Our first loss of the year. Bound to happen.
The less said about our games in the two team juggernaut (
Baylor and
Oklahoma) the better.
And we're officially 0 for 3 in our first rounds of targets. Awful, awful stuff.