HONOLULU – Fans will get their first glimpse of the 2025-26 University of Hawai'i men's basketball team when the Rainbow Warriors take on Pomona-Pitzer in an exhibition game on Saturday, Oct. 18. Tipoff is 7:00 p.m. at the Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center and the game is free to the public. Free parking will also be available.

The 'Bows enter this season with a 13-player roster that features four returnees and nine newcomers. Saturday's contest will be the first of two free-of-charge exhibition games for the Rainbow Warriors who will also take on Chaminade on Sunday, Oct. 26. UH opens the regular-season on the road at Oregon on Nov. 4.
        

EXHIBITION: HAWAI'I vs. POMONA-PITZER
Date | Time				Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025  |   7:00 p.m. HT
Location				Honolulu, O'ahu | Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center (10,300)
Television				None
Live Stream				None
Radio				ESPN Honolulu (1420AM/92.7FM)   |  Josh Pacheco (Play-by-Play)
Streaming Audio				ESPNHonolulu.com & ESPN Honolulu app
Live Stats				Statbroadcast.com
2024-25 Stats				Hawai'i  |  Pomona-Pitzer
Social Media				@HawaiiMBB  | #HawaiiMBB | @HawaiiBasketball  | Facebook

PROMOTIONS

Fans will enjoy free admission and free parking for Saturday's Our Team, Hawai'i's Team exhibition game. Fans will also have an opportunity to meet the team with an autograph session following the game.
  NEWS & NOTES

• The Rainbow Warriors return one starter and four letterwinners from last year's squad that went 15-16.
• Among the returnees is last year's leading scorer in Gytis Nemeikša who averaged 12.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game while playing the majority of his minutes off the bench.
• Senior forward Harry Rouhliadeff (6.5 ppg, 3.7 rpg), the team's lone returning starter and only four-year player, along with sophomore guards Aaron Hunkin-Claytor (team-high 2.5 apg) and AJ Economou are the team's other returning players.
• UH welcomes nine newcomers this year - six Division I transfers, a Division II transfer, a junior college transfer and one prep player. The Division I transfers include a trio of Utah natives in Tanner Cuff (Evansville), Hunter Erickson (Utah) and Isaac Johnson (Utah State).
• UH sports an extremely experienced squad with UH's six D1 transfers having played a combined 513 games (an average of 86 games each). The average age of the squad is 23 years old and 3 months when the regular-season starts in early November.
• After year's of sporting one of college basketball's most geographically diverse squads, Hawai'i will have just three international players in 2025-26 – Gytis Nemeikša (Lithuania), Harry Rouhliadeff (Australia) and Yacine Toumi (France).
• Former NBA champion and five-time Olympian Patty Mills joined the Rainbow Warriors basketball program this past summer as the team's General Manager. A resident of Hawai'i for more than a decade, Mills initiated the Roots & Reach program to create team unity and initiate community outreach.
• This will mark the 13th and final season for Hawai'i men's basketball in the Big West. Starting in the 2026-27 season, UH will be a full-time member of the Mountain West. The Rainbow Warriors have had just one losing mark in its previous 12 seasons of Big West play.