The University of Hawaii basketball team is retiring former point guard Anthony Carter’s Rainbow Warrior jersey.

He will be honored during a Feb. 21 game against UC Santa Barbara at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.

“It means everything,” Carter told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in a telephone interview today. “I wasn’t expecting anything. I just wanted to put smiles on the faces of all the people in Hawaii and just play my heart out.”

At 5 feet, 11 inches, Carter sparked the ’Bows with his quarter-court speed, accurate passes and 45-inch vertical jump. Carter often soared over post defenders for alley-oop dunks.

In two UH seasons through March 1998, Carter helped the ’Bows amass a 42-17 record, including an upset of then-No. 2 Kansas in the championship game of the 1997 Rainbow Cla

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