{"id":237706,"date":"2026-07-21T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=237706"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:55:25","slug":"hilo-mens-basketball-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/07\/21\/hilo-mens-basketball-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball team nationally recognized for academic excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo men’s basketball<\/a> team earned the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC<\/abbr>) Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2025–26 season. Individually, the team placed six student-athletes on the NABC<\/abbr> Honors Court.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s NABC<\/abbr> honors court honorees are Charles Higby Jr., Fabio Da Rocha, Isaiah Hinds, Jamal Entezami, Julio Montes II<\/abbr> and Telryn Villa.<\/p>\n

NABC<\/abbr> Team Academic Excellence Award recognizes programs with a team GPA<\/abbr> of 3.0 or higher.<\/p>\n

The NABC<\/abbr> Honors Court includes junior, senior and graduate student men’s basketball players who finished the year with a cumulative GPA<\/abbr> of 3.2 or higher.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six Vulcans were honored by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":237694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-237706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t