Even with the Big West basketball tournaments relocating to a new arena, familiarity will be a theme when Hawaii takes the floor today.

HENDERSON, NEV. >> March Madness is the University of Hawaii basketball team’s animated practice at Coronado High, where shooting games and to-an-X-and-O play are meticulously squeezed into a 90-minute window.

BASEBALL

The sophomore curse is no more, says Blaze Sumiye.

Kalani freshman Yamato Okumura was in Chiba, Japan, eight months ago.

Kamehameha-Hawaii goalkeeper Jacob Aiona will honor his promise: His team won the state title Saturday, now it’s time to lose his hair.

Amy Atwell dribbled out the final seconds and flung the ball skyward as the buzzer sounded.

Fueled by reserve power, the University of Hawaii basketball team broke away to Saturday night’s 84-62 road victory over Cal State Northridge at The Matadome on the CSUN campus.

The University of Hawaii men’s basketball team is on a mystery tour with no precise coming-home date.

The fifth-ranked Vanderbilt baseball team made a statement — in bold type — in pounding out Saturday’s 12-1 and 13-1 doubleheader sweep of Hawaii at Les Murakami Stadium.

The turnaround started even before practice formally began.