Hoop phenom Rui Hachimura knocked down two 3-pointers to tie the game in the closing minutes but Japan wound up losing to Italy 57-55 in the Round of 16 at the Under-19 World Cup in Cairo on Wednesday. Hachimura, a Gonzaga University player, racked up ...
Just listening to how he talks and reacts, he just seems the same kid that we came to know from his high school days in Japan. But this past year has surely made Rui Hachimura a better basketball player. The 19-year-old phenom has returned to Japan ...
Rui Hachimura moved to the United States last year with a big dream to eventually become an NBA player. In order to achieve that, he will have to excel at college level. But who would have thought that he'd play until this deep into his ...
The Gonzaga University men's basketball team is having a remarkable season — one of the best seasons in U.S. college basketball history. And freshman reserve forward Rui Hachimura has been along for the magical ride. It's a taste of the big time early in the ...
George Washington junior Yuta Watanabe shined in the school's season opener, scoring 18 points and grabbing six rebounds in the Colonials' 75-71 win on Friday night over the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore. Watanabe sank 10 of 12 free throws and drained 2 of 3 3-pointers. ...
Even when you possess elite skills, physicality and elaborate Xs and Os, if you don't have a burning desire to win, you'll just waste those gifts. That's one of the concerns of Japan men's national basketball team head coach Kenji Hasegawa. "Physicality, height, the skill to ...
Japanese basketball standout Rui Hachimura announced on Wednesday that he has met the academic requirements to enroll at Gonzaga University and could begin playing for the school's basketball team as early as this fall. Hachimura, who committed to the Bulldogs last year, said that he ...
High school phenom Rui Hachimura racked up 34 points, 19 rebounds and three blocks to lead Meisei High School to its third consecutive championship in the All-Japan High School Tournament with a 78-73 win over Tsuchiura Nihon University High School in the boys' final ...
Japan's best high school player Rui Hachimura racked up 30 points, 14 rebounds and four assists and two-time defending champion Meisei High School cruised to a 100-81 win over Gunma Prefecture's Maebashi Ikuei High School on Friday in the All-Japan High School Tournament. For Meisei, ...
Basketball phenom Rui Hachimura is headed to the United States to play for the Gonzaga University Bulldogs, the most prestigious college program a Japanese player will have ever suited up for. There will be challenges both on and off the court once Hachimura lands stateside, ...
Japanese basketball phenom Rui Hachimura will play for the Gonzaga University Bulldogs next year, head coach Mark Few revealed on the team's official website. According to the website, the team has signed 17-year-old Hachimura to a national letter of intent. He is one of five ...
It may not happen right away, but Japan's men's basketball looks set to go nowhere but up. And at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, it could field a "Japanese dream team" with exceptional talents, such as Yuta Watanabe, Yuki Togashi and Rui Hachimura. Last Monday, ...
