The Big West Conference announced its men’s basketball all-conference selections on March 12 as picked by the league coaches with a trio of Rainbow Warriors making the list. Justin McKoy was named to the all-conference second team, while Noel Coleman and Bernardo da Silva earned honorable mention.
It’s the second straight year that three Rainbow Warriors earned Big West accolades. The trio have been instrumental in leading the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to a resurgent second half of the season in which the team shot up to the top tier of the league standings while putting UH on the verge of its second consecutive 20-win season.
McKoy led the team in scoring in Big West games averaging 13.7 points per game, while also averaging 6.1 rebounds. Coleman earned all-Big West honors for the third straight time and second time as an honorable mention pick. The senior is once again the team’s leading scorer (13.9 points per game) while also serving as the top defender. Da Silva is averaging 11.6 points and a team-high 7.1 rebounds per game. The native of Brazil led the Big West in field goal percentage (.608) in league games and is the current leader in overall games as well (.602).
UH is preparing for the 2024 Hercules Tire Big West Championship, March 13–16, at The Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The No. 3 seed Rainbow Warriors will open on March 14 at 6 p.m. PT/3 p.m. HT against the winner of the opening-round matchup between No. 6 UC Santa Barbara and No. 7 CSUN.
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