{"id":185313,"date":"2023-10-19T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=185313"},"modified":"2023-10-19T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T22:05:50","slug":"manoa-mens-basketball-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/19\/manoa-mens-basketball-preseason-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s basketball team voted 3rd in Big West preseason poll"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Men's<\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa men\u2019s basketball team<\/a> was selected third in the Big West Preseason Poll by coaches. This marks the second straight year that the Rainbow Warriors were selected in the top three.<\/p>\n

The defending conference champion UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara was voted as the Big West favorite going into this season. The Gauchos garnered nine of 11 first-place votes in the coaches poll. Long Beach State gained the other two first-place votes as the predicted runner-up and UH<\/abbr> was just two points behind at No. 3.<\/p>\n

JoVon McClanahan garnered a spot on the six-player all-Big West preseason team. McClanahan was the team’s leading scorer in conference games last year at 13.5 points per game. McClanahan, who was a second-team all-Big West pick last year, is among nine returnees and three starters from last year’s squad that won 22 games for its highest win total since the 2015–16 season.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> hosts No. 23 Saint Mary’s in the OUTRIGGER Charity Invitational on October 20 at SimpliFi Arena, before opening the 2023–24 regular season at home against UH<\/abbr> Hilo on November 14.<\/p>\n

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

JoVon McCalanahan earned a spot on the all-Big West preseason team. <\/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":[58,82,911,9,550],"class_list":["post-185313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-program-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185313","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=185313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185326,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185313\/revisions\/185326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}