Hawaii women’s basketball coach Laura Beeman would not go as far as calling this a new era of Rainbow Wahine basketball.

With eight newcomers, only three players who have been with the program for at least three years, and no longer any fifth- or sixth-year eligible COVID seasons existing, it does feel like something new heading into the final season of Big West play before moving to the Mountain West in 2026.

“It feels different. I don’t think I would call this a new era simply because what we do kind of translates year after year,” Beeman said before the first official fall practice on Wednesday. “Yeah, we have a lot of international kids. That’s very different. We do have a lot of new faces but still pretty confident and excited about the players that we have coming back.”

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