{"id":1385,"date":"2024-03-13T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2024-03-14T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:31:27","slug":"mckoy-named-to-all-big-west-second-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/mckoy-named-to-all-big-west-second-team\/","title":{"rendered":"McKoy named to All-Big West Second Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hawai’i senior forward Justin McKoy was named to the All-Big West Second Team on Tuesday, while senior guard Noel Coleman and senior center Bernardo da Silva earned Honorable Mention. (Big West Conference graphic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

HENDERSON, Nev. —<\/strong> After seeing very limited action in his first four years of college basketball in the prestigious Atlantic Coast Conference, Hawai’i graduate senior Justin McKoy’s long-awaited breakout season was officially stamped a success on Tuesday when he was named to the All-Big West Second Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKoy, a 6-foot-8 forward, was the only Warrior to earn first or second team honors. Senior guard Noel Coleman and senior center Bernardo da Silva each received Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKoy, a highly touted high school recruit, started his career at Virginia before transferring to North Carolina. But he spent most of those four years in the background in a reserve role. But at UH, he has started all 32 games this season and averaged a team-high 13.7 points points per game in league play, along with 6.1 rebounds per outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He topped the 20-point scoring mark in four conference games, including a season-high 26 points in a home victory over Long Beach State. McKoy is shooting 49 percent from the field, including 37 percent from 3-point range, and also leads the team in free throw accuracy at 88 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a big honor,” McKoy said, “but I felt other (teammates) deserved this recognition as well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coleman, a 6-2 shooting guard, earned All-Big West recognition for the third straight season. He was named to the Second Team as a sophomore and received Honorable Mention last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This season, Coleman leads the team in scoring (13.9 ppg), made 3-pointers (62), steals (34) and minutes per game (32.5), and often draws the toughest assignment on defense. He has had six or more games with 20-plus points, and tied a career-high with 31 points in a crucial victory at UC Riverside on March 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For da Silva, a 6-9 center, this is the first time earning All-Big West recognition. He is averaging 11.6 ppg and a team-high 7.1 rebounds per outing. He has recorded seven double-doubles, including a 19-point, 12 -board performance in a key home victory over UC Davis last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, da Silva led the conference in field goal percentage (60.8 percent) during league play and led in overall games (60.2 percent) as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HENDERSON, Nev. — After seeing very limited action in his first four years of college basketball in the prestigious Atlantic Coast Conference, Hawai’i graduate senior Justin McKoy’s long-awaited breakout season was officially stamped a success on Tuesday when he was named to the All-Big West Second Team. McKoy, a 6-foot-8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}