  {"id":206631,"date":"2024-11-19T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=206631"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:43:58","slug":"christensen-big-west-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/19\/christensen-big-west-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Christensen earns 1st <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Big West Player of the Week honor"},"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\/11\/manoa-big-west-conference-christensen.jpg\" alt=\"tanner christensen big west player of the week\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-206634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/manoa-big-west-conference-christensen.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/manoa-big-west-conference-christensen-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/manoa-big-west-conference-christensen-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> player Tanner Christensen has been named the Big West Men\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week. This is the first weekly honor for a <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> player this season and Christensen\u2019s first honor as a Rainbow Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>The center averaged 19.5 points and 5.5 rebounds while shooting 73.7% from the floor in a pair of wins over Pacific and Weber State. On November 17, he scored a team-high 25 points on 10-of-11 shooting in a 73-68 overtime victory over Weber State. Christensen sank his first nine shots of the contest, scored 20 points by halftime and hit the game-tying basket with six seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen was named the Rainbow Classic Most Outstanding Player as <abbr>UH<\/abbr> won its first Rainbow Classic championship in seven years. On the year, Christensen leads the team in scoring with 17.5 points per game and a .765 field goal percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors (4-0) will host North Carolina on November 22. Tipoff is 7:30 p.m. at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Christensen, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/11\/18\/mens-basketball-christensen-named-big-west-player-of-the-week.aspx\">go to HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Christensen leads the team in scoring with 17.5 points per game and a field goal percentage of .765. <\/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-206631","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\/206631","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=206631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206658,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206631\/revisions\/206658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}