Basketball: Hawaii vs. Pacific

A belated WOOT to the University of Hawaii women's basketball team for defeating University of the Pacific on Saturday. The Wahine are now tied with Pacific for first in the Big West.

The game was awesome. Yes, the win was in overtime. Yes, the Wahine could have made it easier on themselves if they had just made their free-throws. But, bottom-line, they won in front of what seemed liked the largest crowd so far this season. And, get this, not only did people show up but people made noise. People cheered, people booed, people even chanted "DE-FENSE." There was a line to buy tickets. There was a line at the concessions. There was a line for ketchup. It was awesome. This team is awesome. It was also very pink.  

Saturday was "Play4Kay" night, so the team wore pink warm-up shirts. Pacific did the same and also wore pink shoelaces. Mary Wooley wore hot pink skinny jeans. After the game, kids were allowed to go on the court to shoot layups and unlike Thursday, there were actually kids on the court! (Who was the genius who decided to start this promo on a school night?) There was also an autograph session after the game---the players were seated in alphabetical order, in case you wanted to know.

If you wanted to know about the game instead, you can read about it here. I would link to the Star Advertiser article but I'm kind of ticked at them for putting the story on page four of the Sports section and instead putting an article about the men's basketball team's loss and two articles about the baseball team's loss on the front page. The least they could have done was include a picture.

Now, will someone more talented than me please make a .gif of Ashleigh Karaitana's three-pointer? Pretty please with whatever fruit you want on top.

Laura Beeman Money Watch

$1,000 each time turnstile attendance at home reaches 2,000*:

• $1,000 (Tennessee-Martin)
• $1,000 (Baylor)

$1,500 each time turnstile attendance at home reaches 3,000: $0
$1,000 for every autograph session**:

• $1,000 (Ohana Hoopfest)
• $1,000 (Hawaii Pacific)
• $1,000 (Long Beach State)
• $1,000 (UC Santa Barbara) 
• $1,000 (Pacific)

$1,000 for every away game victory:

• $1,000 (UC Riverside)
• $1,000 (UC Davis)
• $1,000 (Cal State Northridge)
• $1,000 (Long Beach State)

Total: $11,000

Previously

What are you doing reading this?  GO TO THE STAN SHERIFF CENTER! WATCH! WEAR PINK! Your number two University of Hawaii women's basketball team is about to go against number one Pacific. GO!