{"id":805289,"date":"2026-07-17T03:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805289\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:28:17","slug":"uh-mens-basketball-earns-national-academic-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805289\/","title":{"rendered":"UH men\u2019s basketball earns national academic recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading time:   &lt; 1 minute<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/manoa-baseketball-honors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-237479\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa men\u2019s basketball team has earned the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award for the third consecutive year, recognizing the program\u2019s success in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors posted a combined 3.20 team GPA during the 2025\u201326 academic year, surpassing the 3.0 GPA required to receive the annual honor.<\/p>\n<p>A school-record seven student-athletes also earned NABC Honors Court recognition: Dre Bullock, Tanner Cuff, Isaac Finlinson, Isaac Johnson, Isaiah Kerr, Gytis Nemeik\u0161a and Harry Rouhliadeff. Kerr led the group with a 3.90 GPA, while Nemeik\u0161a and Rouhliadeff received the honor for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p>The program also earned a perfect single-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) score of 1,000 for the fourth time under head coach Eran Ganot. UH recorded a multi-year APR of 988, exceeding the NCAA postseason benchmark and improving by 16 points from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/7\/15\/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-program-gains-academic-distinction.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawai\u02bbi Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading time: &lt; 1 minute The University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa men\u2019s basketball team has earned the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[378468,64,63,726,378467,378466,50231,50230,272863,85,211307,41913,211298,91341,2204,41914,378464,378465],"class_list":["post-805289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-academic-achievement","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball-academics","tag-isaiah-kerr","tag-nabc-honors-court","tag-nabc-team-academic-excellence-award","tag-rainbow-warriors-basketball","tag-sports","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-student-athlete-honors","tag-uh-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-manoa-athletics","tag-uh-mens-basketball","tag-university-of-hawaii-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}