Rainbow Wahine, Champs! Men Too!

The University of Hawai’i women’s basketball team, the Rainbow Wahine, won the Big West tournament this afternoon to go to the Women’s NCAA tournament for the first time since 1998.

The UH men’s team is leading in the men’s Big West tournament 51-47 with 7:57 left in the game. They haven’t been to the NCAA tournament since 2002.

It would be a helluva big deal for the school if both teams could do it.

Update: The men did it! They hung on and held off Long Beach State 64-60 to win the tournament and get the Big West’s automatic berth in the NCAA!

This is the first time since 1994 that both the men’s and women’s teams qualify for March Madness. Woohoo!