  {"id":230836,"date":"2026-03-17T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=230836"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:16:26","slug":"manoa-basketball-johnson-1st-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/17\/manoa-basketball-johnson-1st-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior basketball player Johnson earns regional 1st-team honors"},"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\/03\/manoa-basketball-johnson-nabc.jpg\" alt=\"NABC First Team All District sports graphic with Isaac Johnson pictured\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-basketball-johnson-nabc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-basketball-johnson-nabc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-basketball-johnson-nabc-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa basketball player Isaac Johnson earned a spot on the 2025\u201326 Division <abbr title=\"One\">I<\/abbr> Pacific District First Team, announced by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (<abbr>NABC<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is the only Big West athlete represented on the 10-player first team. This is the latest accolade for the senior center who was a first-team all-Big West selection. On March 14, Johnson was named the Big West Championship tournament <abbr>MVP<\/abbr> after leading the Rainbow Warriors to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/14\/mens-bkb-ncaa-bound\/\">first conference tournament title and <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> bid in a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson leads the team in scoring (14.1 points per game), blocks (34) and free throw percentage (88.5%), and is second in rebounding (5.8 per game).<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is gearing up for its <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> first-round matchup with Arkansas on March 19 at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. The Rainbow Warriors take on the Razorbacks at 10:25 a.m. <abbr title=\"Hawaii Standard Time\">HST<\/abbr>, with the game airing on <abbr>TBS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The all-district honors are voted on by <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> member coaches across <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"One\">I<\/abbr>. To view the full list of honorees, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/3\/17\/mens-basketball-johnson-named-to-the-nabc-all-district-first-team.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Isaac Johnson made the <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> 2025&#8211;26 Division <abbr title=\"One\">I<\/abbr> Pacific District First Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":230834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,9,550],"class_list":["post-230836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-basketball-johnson-nabc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230836","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=230836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230844,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230836\/revisions\/230844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}