Hawaii Basketball

Many years before Derrick Low was the Pac-10’s most popular Hawaiian, Clifton Jones was putting in his time as a forward for Oregon State, starting his final two seasons for the Beavers and considered by Sports Illustrated as “one of the Pac-10’s best rebounders.”

After being named an OIA East First Team All-Star as a standout for Kahuku High School in 1996, Jones went on to Skyline Junior College where he is still among the top 10 in career points and top 5 in career rebounds. In 1998, he moved on to the Pac-10 where he started for the Oregon State Beavers averaging 5.0 points and 6.4 rebounds per game while shooting 57.1% from the field. In his senior season, Jones led the team in rebounding (5.7 rpg), total blocks (1.1 bpg) and field goal percentage (63.6%) and was 5th on the team in scoring (8.3 ppg).

Currently Jones is in Finland, playing for Joensuun Kataja, the team with which he started his career and led to a Finnish Basketball Association championship in his first season. During that season, he averaged 16.3 points, 10.3 rebounds and a league-leading 2.5 blocks per game.

Now in his 7th season, the 6-8 Hawaii product is averaging 6.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game and shooting 62.2% from the field. Full Statistics » (in Finnish)

After spending two years in the NBDL, former University of Hawaii standout Carl English, moved on to Europe to play for Virtus Bologna of the Italian League in 2005-06 and KK Zadar of the Adriatic League this past season (2006-07).

As a starting guard, English helped Zadar to the 2007 Croatian National Championship leading the team in scoring at 20.3 points per game and contributing 3.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.7 steals per night. He shot 44.2% from the field including 37.4% from 3-point range and was also named the MVP of the 2006 NLB All-Star Game.

KK Zadar finished in 7th in the Adriatic League with a record of 14-12.

Former Kalaheo Mustang and University of Hawaii standout Julian Sensley was picked up by TShop.it Livorno of the Italian Basketball League on January 20th of this year. Livorno plays in Serie A, the highest level of club competition in Italy.

Thus far, Sensley has appeared in 5 games for Livorno averaging 4.8 ppg with a high of 14. He is shooting just 21.4% from the field (3-14) and 33.3% from 3-point range (6-18).

See Sensley’s complete statistics (Italian) »