{"id":220041,"date":"2025-08-11T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=220041"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:19:28","slug":"hilo-basketball-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/hilo-basketball-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball team, 7 players honored for academic excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hilo-basketball-nabc.jpg\" alt=\"Hilo basketball team picture with award graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hilo-basketball-nabc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hilo-basketball-nabc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hilo-basketball-nabc-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men&#8217;s basketball<\/a> program earned the National Basketball Coaches Association (<abbr>NABC<\/abbr>) Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2024&#8211;25 academic year with a team grade point average (<abbr>GPA<\/abbr>) of at least 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, seven Vulcans were recognized by making the <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> Honors Court. To qualify, student-athletes must hold a cumulative <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> of 3.2 or higher and have at least junior academic standing.<\/p>\n<p>2024&#8211;25 <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> Honors Court<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jarin Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Luke Farrington<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah Hinds<\/li>\n<li>Jake Kosakowski<\/li>\n<li>Julio Montes <abbr title=\"The second\">II<\/abbr><\/li>\n<li>Nadjrick Peat<\/li>\n<li>Telryn Villa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/8\/8\/mens-basketball-nabc-team-academic-excellence-award-seven-on-honors-court.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcans were recognized by the National Basketball Coaches Association. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":220036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-220041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hilo-basketball-nabc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220049,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220041\/revisions\/220049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}