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Seasiders Are Number One
Laie, HI—The Brigham Young University Hawaii men’s basketball team sits atop the Division II Bulletin preseason national basketball poll released today. It marks the first time in the school’s basketball history that the Seasiders have been ranked number one. The Seasiders, who finished last season ranked third nationally, finished 27-2 last year and won the Pacific West Conference championship before advancing to the NCAA II West Regional Championship game.
“This is the first time a team from Hawaii has been ranked number one in our preseason Top 25,” said Gary Rubin, publisher of Division II Bulletin. “It was a difficult decision, but we felt BYU–Hawaii has the talent to carry onto the national stage.”
The Seasiders return Daktronics NCAA II National Player of the Year Lucas Alves (19.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg) as well as Cousy Award finalist Virgil (J.R.) Buensuceso (11.4 ppg, 6.0 apg). BYU–Hawaii also returns junior Marques Whippy (8.2 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 2.3 spg), who was named a pre-season Honorable Mention All-American by the Sporting News, and sophomore Tsung-Hsien (Jet) Chang (12.3 ppg), the Pacific West Conference Freshman of the Year last season.
“We are excited about being ranked number one,” said BYU–Hawaii Head Coach Ken Wagner. “Our players have worked hard to earn this kind of respect and now we need to work even harder to keep it. This is exciting for our program, our conference, and for the State of Hawaii.”
BYU–Hawaii will open the season with an exhibition game against the University of Hawaii on November 5th in the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu at 7:05 pm. The Seasiders will host the American Money Group Asia Pacific Tournament on November 13th and 14th before opening the regular season at home in the Cannon Activities Center against Oakland City on November 25th at 7:30 pm. This season, all but two of BYU–Hawaii’s regular season home games will be carried live worldwide on BYU Television which is available on DirectTV and numerous cable outlets around the world.