Finalizing a French connection, the University of Hawaii basketball has added Yacine Toumi, a 6-foot-10, 215-pound transfer from Seton Hall.

Toumi, who was born and reared in France, will join the Rainbow Warriors this summer after competing with the Tunisia national team in FIBA AfroBasket 2025, Africa’s prime basketball event. Tunisia won the quadrennial tournament in 2017 and 2021. Toumi’s family on his mother’s side is from Tunisia.

“It’s going to be a great competition,” said Toumi, noting that after that he hopes “to do big things” with the ’Bows. “Happy to go to Hawaii. I feel like me and the coaching staff are on the same page.”

Toumi was at his best as a University of Evansville post, when he averaged 10.4 points and 5.68 rebounds in 2022-23 ,and 10.8 points and 6.45 boards the

See Full Page