{"id":186608,"date":"2023-11-07T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=186608"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:39:16","slug":"uh-hilo-mens-basketball-voted-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/07\/uh-hilo-mens-basketball-voted-3\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball voted No. 3 in PacWest Coaches Preseason Poll"},"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\/11\/hilo-mens-basketball-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Vulcan men\u02bbs basketball team \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-mens-basketball-3.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-mens-basketball-3-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-mens-basketball-3-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> team was voted to finish No. 3 in the PacWest Conference Coaches Preseason Poll that was released on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans have climbed the conference ladder since head coach Kaniela Aiona came on board in the 2020&#8211;21 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans finished fourth in the conference last year with a 13-7 tally and were 17-9 overall. Aiona welcomes back eight of his players, including reigning PacWest Newcomer of the Year Carlos Ramsey Jr. and PacWest Defender of the Year Nadjrick Peat.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans will compete in the PacWest-<abbr>GNAC<\/abbr> Challenge, November 10&#8211;11 at the Murchison Gym (Westmont) against the Saint Martin\u2019s Saints and the Montana State Billings Yellowjackets.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/11\/3\/mens-basketball-voted-to-finish-third-ramsey-jr-receives-preseason-recognition.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Ramsey Jr. voted as the PacWest Newcomer of the Year. <\/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":[660,14,151],"class_list":["post-186608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-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\/186608","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=186608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186644,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186608\/revisions\/186644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}