Season tickets for the 2009-10 University of Hawaii men’s and women’s basketball go on sale Monday.

Fans can purchase season tickets at the Stan Sheriff Center Box Office, by calling 944-2697, or online at HawaiiAthletics.com. The box office is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed on holidays).

For the second straight year the men’s basketball team will play 20 home games.

The inaugural Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic will be included in the men’s basketball season tickets. Diamond Head Classic all-session package and individual tickets will go on sale Monday, Oct. 5. Individual tickets for men’s and women’s basketball go on sale Monday, Oct. 19.

The men’s basketball squad, led by third-year head coach Bob Nash, returns 10 letterwinners from last year’s team, including all-WAC forward Roderick Flemings. Nash and the Rainbow Warriors play a pair of exhibition games against UH Hilo and BYU-Hawai‘i, before playing its regular-season opener against Southern Utah on Nov. 13 in the Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic.

The women's basketball team will be under the leadership of new head coach Dana Takahara-Dias.
The Rainbow Wahine open the season against Hawaii Pacific in an exhibition game Nov. 4 and hold their home opener against Arizona State on Nov. 27.