{"id":229988,"date":"2026-02-24T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=229988"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:50:30","slug":"hilo-montes-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/hilo-montes-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans\u2019 Montes named Player of the Week with PacWest scoring record"},"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\/2026\/02\/hilo-basketball-montes-honor.jpg\" alt=\"PacWest Conference Player of the Week Julio Montes II graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilo-basketball-montes-honor.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilo-basketball-montes-honor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilo-basketball-montes-honor-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo men\u2019s basketball player Julio Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr> was named PacWest Player of the Week after putting up the highest single game point total in the conference this season with 35 against Azusa Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr> hit 13 of 23 shots, including 3 of 5 from three-point range, and he nailed all six of his free throw attempts. For the week in three games, Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr> averaged almost 25 points a game with six rebounds, seven assists and six steals. He shot 50% from the field, 50% from behind the arch, and converted 19 of 20 free throws.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2026\/2\/23\/mens-basketball-pacwest-player-of-the-week-julio-montes-ii.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s Julio Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr> scored a season high of 35 against Azusa Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":229987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-229988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilo-basketball-montes-honor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229988","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=229988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230384,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229988\/revisions\/230384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}