HONOLULU – The University of Hawai'i men's basketball team dropped its second straight game with a 75-62 loss to Princeton in the FS1 Pearl Harbor Invitational Wednesday night in Bloch Arena at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
 
Playing on the 75^th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Rainbow Warriors dug themselves into an early hole and could never recover against an efficient Tiger squad that led from wire-to-wire.
 
Princeton (3-4) took a double-digit lead five minutes into the game, led by 20 at half, and withstood an early second-half surge to hand UH its second setback in the Invitational. With the loss UH fell to 4-5 and dropped back-to-back games for the first time since the 2014-15 season.
 
Gibson Johnson and Noah Allen combined to score 38 of UH's 63 points. A day after going scoreless against Seton Hall, Allen bounced back with 19 points, 14 of which came in the second half. Johnson also finished with 19 points, a new career-high.
 
Princeton was led by the trio of Steven Cook (21), Spencer Weisz (17), and Henry Caruso (12), who went a combined 10-of-15 from three-point range.

Slow starts continue to plague Hawai'i as Princeton jumped out to a 15-5 lead to set the tone for the game. The Tigers hit seven three-pointers in the first half, five of them from Cook who scored 17 first-half points to help Princeton forge a 43-23 lead at the break.
 
However, just as they did the previous night against Seton Hall, UH continued to scrap. The 'Bows came out with renewed energy out of the locker room and outscored Princeton 15-4 in the first five minutes of the second half. A Johnson free throw cut the deficit to single-digits, 47-38, at the 14:44 mark. However, Princeton responded with a 19-8 run to regain their 20-point margin and effectively put UH away.
 
The Rainbow Warriors will now have a two-week break before next playing in the 8th annual Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, Dec. 22-25.