  {"id":205227,"date":"2024-10-17T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=205227"},"modified":"2024-10-17T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:07:10","slug":"womens-basketball-tops-big-west-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/17\/womens-basketball-tops-big-west-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa women\u2019s basketball tops Big West 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\/2024\/10\/manoa-basketball-bw-preseason-poll.jpg\" alt=\"U H womens basketball team\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-basketball-bw-preseason-poll.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-basketball-bw-preseason-poll-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-basketball-bw-preseason-poll-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">women\u2019s basketball team<\/a> placed first in the 2024&#8211;25 Big West Women\u2019s Basketball Preseason Coaches\u2019 Poll and two Rainbow Wahine seniors were voted to the Preseason Coaches&#8217; Team.<\/p>\n<p>The Big West announced the results of the poll on October 15 and the Rainbow Wahine edged <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Irvine by a single point to top the preseason poll for the third straight year.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> guards Daejah Phillips and Lily Wahinekapu earned places on the preseason coaches team for the second straight year after earning all-conference honors last season.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was named to the All-Big West first team last season after averaging 10.8 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game, and was named the Big West Sixth Player of the Year for the second time in her career.<\/p>\n<p>Wahinekapu was an All-Big West second-team pick last season and led the team with 11.6 points per game (<abbr>ppg<\/abbr>) overall and 13.0 ppg in conference games.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine will face <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo in an exhibition game in Hilo on October 27 and open the regular season on November 7 at Portland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/10\/15\/womens-basketball-tops-big-west-poll-phillips-wahinekapu-earn-preseason-honors.aspx\">For more information go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abber>Âé¶¹´«Ã½M\u0101noa women\u2019s basketball team placed first in the 2024&#8211;25 Big West Women\u2019s Basketball Preseason Coaches\u2019 Poll.<\/abber><\/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":[58,82,911,660,9,550],"class_list":["post-205227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-program-recognition","tag-student-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\/205227","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=205227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205230,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205227\/revisions\/205230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}