{"id":169553,"date":"2022-11-23T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169553"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:26:02","slug":"tait-jones-pacwest-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/23\/tait-jones-pacwest-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tait-Jones named PacWest Player of the Week"},"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\/2022\/11\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-tait-jones.jpg\" alt=\"Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones Player of the Week Graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-169552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-tait-jones.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-tait-jones-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-tait-jones-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> player <strong>Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones<\/strong> was named <abbr title=\"Pacific West\">PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the week, November 14&#8211;20.<\/p>\n<p>Tait-Jones had a strong game last week to help <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo claim a 87-82 overtime win against University of Alaska Anchorage on November 14. The sophomore had 28 points and 13 rebounds against Alaska Anchorage, along with three assists, a steal and a blocked shot. He drilled 16-of-21 free throw opportunities, including 4-for-4 marksmanship in overtime after the Vulcans built a small lead.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Tait-Jones was named <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> Newcomer and Freshman of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2022\/11\/21\/mens-basketball-tait-jones-game-sealing-baskets-net-pacwest-player-of-the-week-honors.aspx\">hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball player Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones scored 28 points to help the Vulcans defeat University of Alaska Anchorage on November 14. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-169553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169553","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=169553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169562,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169553\/revisions\/169562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}