{"id":172639,"date":"2023-02-10T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T00:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=172639"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T00:12:37","slug":"hilo-mens-basketball-pacwest-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/10\/hilo-mens-basketball-pacwest-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball clinches PacWest<\/abbr> championships berth"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo men\u2019s basketball<\/a> team secured a spot in the Pacific West Conference Championships by defeating Holy Names University, 82-68, in a home game on February 8. Five Vulcans finished the game with double-digit scores. Kalique Mitchell<\/strong> led the team with 22 points off the bench on 10-of-12 shooting with nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones scored 15 points with eight rebounds. He is now 18 points from reaching 1,000 career points scored during his time at UH<\/abbr> Hilo.<\/p>\n

The other three double-digit scorers were Darren Williams<\/strong> (14), Carlos Ramsey Jr.<\/strong> (13) and Jarin Edwards<\/strong> (11).<\/p>\n

With this win, UH<\/abbr> Hilo moved to 15-5 overall and 11-4 PacWest<\/abbr> play, and became the third team in the conference to clinch a berth in the six-team postseason tournament, scheduled for early March.<\/p>\n

The Vulcans will have their final home game on February 11 against Fresno Pacific University.<\/p>\n

For more, visit hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Vulcans defeated Holy Names University, 82-68, to claim a spot in the six-team postseason conference tournament.<\/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-172639","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\/172639","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=172639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172652,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172639\/revisions\/172652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}