{"id":67751,"date":"2021-07-29T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=67751"},"modified":"2021-07-28T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T20:31:20","slug":"five-rocket-mens-basketball-players-earn-spot-in-nabc-honors-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_29_2021\/five-rocket-mens-basketball-players-earn-spot-in-nabc-honors-court","title":{"rendered":"Five Rocket Men\u2019s Basketball Players Earn Spot in NABC Honors Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo men&#8217;s basketball program led the Mid-American Conference and tied for fourth nationally with five Rockets being named to the 2020-21 National Association of Basketball Coaches Honors Court. AJ Edu, Spencer Littleson, Setric Millner Jr., JT Shumate and Blake Williams each received the honor for their strong performances in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Littleson possesses a 3.791 GPA as a graduate student pursuing his MBA, while Williams graduated with a 3.640 GPA in finance. Shumate holds the highest GPA on the team with a 3.967 figure in middle-childhood education, while Edu and Millner Jr. have 3.606 and 3.267 GPAs in accounting and business, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a member of the varsity squad with junior or senior status and hold a cumulative 3.2 grade-point average or higher at the conclusion of the academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With five Rockets named to the 2020-21 National Association of Basketball Coaches Honors Court, Toledo men&#8217;s basketball program led the Mid-American Conference and tied for fourth nationally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,32,53,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67758,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751\/revisions\/67758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}