  {"id":191203,"date":"2024-02-02T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=191203"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T01:57:43","slug":"wahine-basketball-beemans-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/02\/wahine-basketball-beemans-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine basketball targets record attendance at &lsquo;Beeman&#8217;s Big Bash&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-beemans-bash-1.png\" alt=\"Wahine basketball Beemans Big Bash\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-beemans-bash-1.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-beemans-bash-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-beemans-bash-1-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">women&#8217;s basketball<\/a> team will take aim at the largest attendance figure of head coach Laura Beeman&#8217;s tenure when the Rainbow Wahine host Beeman&#8217;s Big Bash on February 17, at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of a Big West title chase, the 2014&#8211;15 Rainbow Wahine played their home finale before a crowd of 4,340 in Beeman&#8217;s third year leading the program.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s Rainbow Wahine squad will look to surpass that mark when they face <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara in a rematch of the 2023 Big West Championship game.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back Big West champions have seen their attendance numbers rise over the last two seasons, but the Wahine want to make a statement alongside their fans when they welcome in the Gauchos for a 7 <abbr>p.m<\/abbr>. tipoff.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I tell our players all the time when you win, the fans will come, and our arena is the best place to be,&rdquo; said head coach Laura Beeman. &ldquo;I&#8217;ve seen this place when we&#8217;ve had a nice crowd, and I want this team to see it; they&#8217;ve earned it, and I want this place rocking on February 17.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fans can also expect other activities before and during the game. Those will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for Beeman&#8217;s Big Bash are on sale now for $7 for adults and $5 for senior citizens. All keiki (ages 4 through <abbr title=\"High School\">HS<\/abbr>) are free. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetGroupList?groupCode=WB&#038;linkID=hawaii&#038;shopperContext=&#038;caller=&#038;appCode=&#038;utm_source=HawaiiAthletics&#038;utm_medium=Story+Text+Link&#038;utm_content=Womens+Basketball+All+Tickets&#038;utm_campaign=2023-24+WBB+Tickets\">Purchase tickets online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/1\/30\/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-aims-for-big-turnout-at-beemans-big-bash.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets are on sale now for the Beeman\u2019s Big Bash on February 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,9,550],"class_list":["post-191203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191218,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191203\/revisions\/191218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}