Prep Hoops Hawaii Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

Hawaii already has four sport polls built here. This is the fifth, and the first for basketball alone.

ScoringLive runs a weekly vote across every HHSAA sport. SBLive's High School on SI runs an annual Player of the Year series, also every sport. KHON2's Cover2 covers football only, once a season, and caps the public at one-third of the result. None of the three touches basketball as its own category. Prep Hoops does, and only that.

Prep Hoops Hawaii Player of the Week runs at prephoops.com/player-of-the-week-voting/, a standing page rather than a new article each week. Prep Hoops itself is a national high school basketball recruiting and coverage network, not a local TV station, a newspaper, or a state magazine, the organizer type behind every other Hawaii poll built on this site. That distinction matters for what a win actually signals: a mention inside a network that college coaches already track for prospects, not a regional readers' poll or a broadcast segment.

A basketball player who never crosses ScoringLive's radar in a given week (three other sports crowding that ballot) still has a dedicated basketball-only vote running in parallel. That is the practical gap Prep Hoops fills.

Boys and Girls run on separate ballots. Voting for the wrong half doesn't count.

Prep Hoops splits the weekly vote into two ballots, Boys and Girls, rather than one combined list. Nobody has to scroll past the other gender's nominees to find their pick, but they do have to find the right half of the page first. A vote cast for a Girls nominee while browsing the Boys ballot simply isn't possible; the two lists never merge.

Nominees themselves come from Prep Hoops staff coverage of that week's games, the same editorial model behind ScoringLive's Athlete of the Week and the Hawaii Player of the Year series. A family or coach cannot self-submit a name directly onto the live ballot. What a family can do is make sure a strong performance gets seen, and once a nominee is on the ballot, make sure the right people know which of the two lists to open.

Because the ballot resets weekly rather than running once a season, a quiet week doesn't end a nominee's shot. KHON2's Cover2 votes once, and it's over. Prep Hoops opens again the following week, every week the basketball calendar runs.

What island geography does to a basketball-only ballot

Basketball gyms are smaller than football stadiums, and Hawaii's islands are smaller than mainland metro markets. Put those two facts together and a Neighbor Island program, a BIIF team on the Big Island or a KIF team on Kauai, competes on the same weekly ballot as an Oahu ILH or OIA program without the enrollment gap that shows up in football. A gym seats a few hundred people either way.

That doesn't erase Oahu's advantage in raw numbers. ILH and OIA schools carry larger alumni bases and denser social networks, plain arithmetic of population. What it does mean is that a tight-knit island program only needs to reach its own community fully, not out-scale Oahu's, to stay competitive on a given week's ballot. Confirm which of the two ballots, Boys or Girls, carries the nominee before spending any effort building support, since that mistake wastes the whole push.

General mechanics for turning organic support into a real vote total are covered in the online vote-buying guide and, for this specific format, fan poll vote support. The wider Hawaii slate, including the statewide Best of Hawaii ballot, sits at the Best of Hawaii guide, and every Hawaii program competing for the same weekly attention is indexed at the Hawaii contest hub, part of the full USA contest directory.