HONOLULU – Due to health and safety concerns, the University of Hawai'i men's basketball team is unable to participate against Northern Iowa in Saturday's Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic match-up. The Rainbow Warriors have a limited number of players available for the game as a result of injuries and COVID-related issues.

"We're extremely disappointed to not be able participate in tomorrow's game, but it's absolutely the right thing to do," head coach Eran Ganot said. "Our program didn't have a single positive COVID case over the last 21 months and now we're are being affected like so many programs across the country. It's an unfortunate situation, but the priority remains to protect our student-athletes as well as those that we compete against."  

The Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic fifth place game, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. ET/8:30 a.m. HST, between Wyoming and South Florida will proceed as scheduled.
 
The championship session tips off at 6:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. HST, with Liberty and BYU, followed by the Championship game between Stanford and Vanderbilt.