{"id":170450,"date":"2022-12-13T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=170450"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T01:24:01","slug":"williams-pacwest-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/13\/williams-pacwest-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams named <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> 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\/12\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-williams.jpg\" alt=\"Darren Williams PacWest Player of the Week\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-170458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-williams.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-williams-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-athletics-pacwest-player-of-the-week-williams-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>Darren Williams<\/strong> was named <abbr title=\"Pacific West\">PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the Week, December 5&#8211;11.<\/p>\n<p>In <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s 97-79 home win over <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University on December 10, Williams shot a season-high 28 points, missing only two shots in 39 minutes. He hit 11 of 13 attempts, including  6-of-7 from three-point range. He also had five assists and three steals to help lead the Vulcans to a 3-0 mark in <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> play.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, a senior, leads the <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> in assists (5.7 per game) and three-point percentage (.553) and is second in steals (2.5 per game) and fourth in scoring (19.2 per game).<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2022\/12\/12\/mens-basketball-williams-named-pacwest-defender-of-the-week.aspx\">hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball player Darren Williams shot a season-high 28 points against <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University on December 10. <\/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":[58,82,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-170450","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":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170450","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=170450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170484,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170450\/revisions\/170484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}