Jan. 11, 2004
Stats
The Chaminade University men's basketball team came out flat against a hot shooting Hawaii-Hilo team and suffered their second loss to the Vulcans by the score of 91-77.
UH-Hilo shot a blistering 65% from the field in the first half to gain an 11 point halftime advantage. Senior guard Ryan Abraham's paced the Vulcan's in the first half with 14 points at the break.
The second half turned into a foul shooting contest will the Vulcans winning that battle as well. UH-Hilo connected on 29 of their 38 second half free throw attempts while the Silverswords made 20 out of 29 attempts. For the game the Vulcans shot 77% from the charity stripe compared to CU's 70%.
"We were outplayed in every facet of the game tonight," CU head coach Aaron Griess said. "Unfortunately, at this point in time, we're unable to put the pieces together in order to be successful on a given night. Hilo has a nice team and they deserve credit for their play, but I'm very disappointed that we couldn't come out with any kind of urgency at all. In order for us to approach competitive basketball, we need to play as hard as we can every minute we're on the floor and we're not doing that right now. We'll go back to work this week and continue to try to get better in practice."
Chaminade was led by senior Jason Walters with 19 points on 5 of 7 shooting from the field. 6'1" senior guard Bryon Sykes paced the Swords with 7 rebounds.
Chaminade continues PacWest play next Thursday night against BYU-Hawaii. The game will be played at McCabe Gymnasium with a 7:30pm tip-off.
