  {"id":212346,"date":"2025-03-18T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=212346"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:09:42","slug":"wahine-wbit-face-unlv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/18\/wahine-wbit-face-unlv\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine earn <abbr>WBIT<\/abbr> bid; face <abbr>UNLV<\/abbr>"},"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\/manoa-athletics-wahine-wbit-unlv.png\" alt=\"wahine basketball player on the court\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-212374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-wahine-wbit-unlv.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-wahine-wbit-unlv-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-wahine-wbit-unlv-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">women\u2019s basketball<\/a> team will continue its season and will face <abbr>UNLV<\/abbr> in the first round of the Women\u2019s Basketball Invitation Tournament on March 20 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> (22-9) earned an automatic berth as the Big West regular-season champion. The game will be played at <abbr>UNLV<\/abbr>&#8216;s Cox Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>This marks <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s fourth consecutive postseason appearance and 20th overall. They reached the <abbr>WBIT<\/abbr> after going 16-4 in Big West play. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> is 6-21 in postseason history and last won a postseason game in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The first three rounds of the <abbr>WBIT<\/abbr> will be played at campus sites, with the semifinals and finals at Butler University in Indianapolis. Games will be streamed on <abbr>ESPN<\/abbr>+ with later rounds on <abbr>ESPNU<\/abbr> and <abbr>ESPN<\/abbr>2.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/3\/16\/womens-basketball-to-face-unlv-in-wbit.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> will continue their postseason journey in Las Vegas on March 20.<\/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":[58,82,9,550],"class_list":["post-212346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","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\/212346","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=212346"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212384,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212346\/revisions\/212384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}