1980 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors baseball team

1980 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors baseball
ConferenceWestern Athletic Conference
Record60–18 (19–5 WAC)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Coop DeRenne
  • Jim Fujimori
  • Dave Murakami
  • Carl Furutani
  • Ron Nomura
Home stadiumUH Stadium
Seasons
← 1979
1981 →
1980 Western Athletic Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
North
BYU  x‍‍‍y 14 3   .824 41 18   .695
Wyoming  ‍‍‍ 11 6   .647 23 20   .535
Utah  ‍‍‍ 5 12   .294 17 19   .472
Colorado State  ‍‍‍ 4 13   .235 17 37   .315
South
No. 2 Hawaii  x‍‍y 19 5   .792 60 18   .769
New Mexico  ‍‍‍ 16 8   .667 43 20   .683
San Diego State  ‍‍‍ 11 12   .478 40 26   .606
UTEP  ‍‍‍ 1 22   .043 22 39   .361
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of 18 November 2016
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 1980 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors baseball team represented the University of Hawaii at Manoa during the 1980 NCAA Division I baseball season. It was the program's 58th season of existence, and their first season in the Western Athletic Conference. In the Warriors' first season in the WAC, they won divisional and conference honors, winning the South Division regular season, and the WAC Championship Series against BYU. The Rainbow Warriors received an automatic berth into the 1980 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. There, they won the Central Regional and advanced to the College World Series, where they lost in the final to Arizona.