{"id":200580,"date":"2024-07-15T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=200580"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T01:01:41","slug":"uh-manoa-mens-basketball-academic-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/15\/uh-manoa-mens-basketball-academic-accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s basketball receives academic accolades"},"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\/2024\/07\/manoa-athletics-basketball-nabc-academic.jpg\" alt=\"3 U H basketball players, N A B C academic award graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-200575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-athletics-basketball-nabc-academic.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-athletics-basketball-nabc-academic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-athletics-basketball-nabc-academic-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball team<\/a> was honored with the National Association of Basketball Coaches (<abbr>NABC<\/abbr>) Team Academic Excellence Award as 15 student-athletes earned a combined 3.1 grade point average during the 2023&#8211;24 academic calendar. Each year <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> recognizes teams that earn a grade-point average of 3.0 and higher.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Rainbow Warriors also earned individual <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> accolades\u2014graduate students Matthue Cotton and Justin McKoy were recipients of the <abbr>NABC<\/abbr> Honors Court award. Cotton maintained a 3.50 <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr> while seeking a masters in finance while McKoy achieved a 3.74 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> in obtaining a graduate certificate in online learning and teaching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/7\/15\/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-receives-nabc-academic-accolades.aspx\">For more information go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rainbow Warriors earned recognition from the National Association of Basketball Coaches for their achievements in the classroom.<\/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":[58,82,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-200580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","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\/200580","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=200580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200585,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200580\/revisions\/200585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}