{"id":171586,"date":"2023-01-17T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=171586"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T02:24:29","slug":"peat-grabs-pacwest-weekly-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/17\/peat-grabs-pacwest-weekly-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Peat grabs another PacWest weekly award"},"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\/2023\/01\/hilo-athletics-basketball-peat-0123.jpg\" alt=\"Peat with &quot;Defender of the Week&quot; graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-171491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/hilo-athletics-basketball-peat-0123.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/hilo-athletics-basketball-peat-0123-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/hilo-athletics-basketball-peat-0123-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo basketball<\/a> player <strong>Nadjrick Peat<\/strong> sent enough opponent shots back to sender and grabbed enough rebounds to earn PacWest Defender of the Week honors&#8212;his second this season. The 6-foot-11 shot blocker had eight send-backs in two games last week, four each against Academy of Art University and Dominican University of California.<\/p>\n<p>Peat had 16 points and nine rebounds against the Penguins, and added 10 more points and eight boards versus the Urban Knights. Thirteen of his 17 rebounds for the week came on the defensive end of the court. His 26 points for the week came on efficient 10-of-14 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Peat leads the PacWest with 2.7 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/1\/16\/mens-basketball-peat-grabs-another-pacwest-weekly-award.aspx\">For more go to hiloathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s Nadjrick Peat earned PacWest Defender of the Week honors\u2014his second this season.<\/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":[58,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-171586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/171586","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=171586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171594,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171586\/revisions\/171594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}