{"id":211738,"date":"2025-03-04T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=211738"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:58:10","slug":"peat-pacwest-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/peat-pacwest-week-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s Peat earns PacWest Defender of the Week honors"},"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\/2025\/03\/hilo-athletics-big-west-peat.png\" alt=\"nadjrick peat headshot\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-211708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hilo-athletics-big-west-peat.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hilo-athletics-big-west-peat-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hilo-athletics-big-west-peat-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> player Nadjrick Peat was selected as Pacific West Conference Defender of the Week for February 24 to March 2, to close the final week of regular season play.<\/p>\n<p>Peat finished the game against the Urban Knights, with 15 totaled rebounds and three blocks while sinking two game-sealing free throws in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>In the game against <abbr title=\"Hawaii Pacific University\">HPU<\/abbr>, Peat finished with three more blocks, eight boards and 13 points (5-9 <abbr title=\"field goals\">FG<\/abbr>) while becoming the program&#8217;s new all-time career leader in rebounds with 622 and counting. Peat is also ranked both No. 2 and No. 3 for single-season blocks, and No. 5 for single-season rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Peat, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/3\/3\/mens-basketball-peat-grabs-pacwest-defender-of-the-week-honors.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadjrick Peat earned the honor after rebounding and key plays in the final week of the regular season.<\/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":[58,82,14,151],"class_list":["post-211738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","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\/211738","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=211738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211741,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211738\/revisions\/211741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}