This time for the Hawai’i men’s basketball team, Mr. Hyde was just a tad more bad than Dr. Jekyll was good, and that slightest of differences cost the Warriors dearly in a thrilling but heartbreaking 52-51 defeat to visiting Cal State Fullerton on Saturday night.
A super vocal crowd of 3,997 in SimpliFi Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched the Warriors almost overcome an 18-point second-half deficit to cut it to one point and have three potential game-winning shot attempts fall short in the final seconds as they fell to 18-8 overall and 9-5 in Big West Conference play.