Ninety-four feet became 188, became 376, became 3,760. Eventually it was impossible to keep track.

After a series of turnovers and overall lackluster play at Monday’s practice, Hawaii men’s basketball coach Gib Arnold had seen about enough. With that came the command to his players: run. Down and back, down and back, and don’t stop until practice is over.

The Rainbow Warriors wordlessly crisscrossed the length of the court for the final 20 minutes, supporting passing teammates with high-fives while Arnold and his assistants stood with arms crossed.

"We were kind of mad at ourselves for getting on Coach’s bad side today," sophomore forward Trevor Wiseman said afterward. "We’re all in shape, but it wasn’t like (we were) running for our conditioning. It was to be mentally prepared."

Arnold had little to yell about in the first two days of practices last week, but was on his team from the get-go following a day off.

"As we walked in the gym, everybody wasn’t really going their hardest," freshman shooting guard Brandon Jawato said. "A lot of the players were tired; we had two-a-days on Saturday. But that’s not an excuse really. We should be going hard every day, getting better. It wasn’t on Coach Gib at all. It was on the players."

Everyone was willing to share in the blame.

"I’m a firm believer that players don’t have bad practices, coaches have bad practices," Arnold said. "So it’s something that if we let those little things become big things that we’re not doing right, then we’ll have more bad practices.

"We realized today that it’s going to be a long year, and we got a long ways to go if we don’t bring it every day," Arnold added.

The Rainbows find out today what coaches and media around the Western Athletic Conference think of their potential. The league’s preseason polls for men’s and women’s basketball come out in the morning, followed by a coaches teleconference.

Arnold didn’t think a whole lot of his team’s effort in Gym 1. He usually reviews practice film the same night, but said he’ll forego this one and coordinate with his three assistants on coming back strong today.

"There were a lot of things (wrong). A lot of things," he said. "There’s not one thing that we don’t have to get better at. It was definitely a whole bunch of things that, you know, finally I was just, we’re having a bad practice and we need to refocus and tomorrow we will. That’s what I told the guys at the end."

There was a positive sign. Arnold excused nearly half the team a few minutes into the running session for committing fewer errors during practice. But before long, the idle players voluntarily rejoined their teammates on the court and the full team resumed high-fiving each other on each lap.

"We’re a team," said Jawato, one of the players to re-enter the court. "I mean, whatever the other part of the team goes through, we’re going to go through the exact same thing. Gotta stick together. We’re all in it as one."