{"id":1976,"date":"2016-03-05T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2016-03-05T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T21:54:31","slug":"greg-tarca-selected-maac-all-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/archives\/1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Tarca selected MAAC  All-Academic honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/news\/2016\/3\/4\/qu-mens-basketball-leads-maac-with-four-all-academic-selections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/news\/2016\/3\/4\/qu-mens-basketball-leads-maac-with-four-all-academic-selections.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=passthru_imagecredit&amp;image_path=\/images\/2016\/3\/4\/TarcaRotator.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Tarca\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HAMDEN, Conn. &#8211; The Quinnipiac men&#8217;s basketball team placed four players on the 2015-16 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic team, it was announced today by the league office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four Bobcat selections were all sophomores, including guards <dfn><a id=\"sidearmAd1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=3942\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3942\">Ayron Hutton<\/a><\/dfn> (Virginia Beach, Va.), <dfn><a id=\"sidearmAd2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=3944\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3944\">Greg Tarca<\/a><\/dfn> (Montgomery, N.J. &#8211; pictured), and <dfn><a id=\"sidearmAd3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=4259\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"4259\">Jemaa Yuori<\/a><\/dfn> (Accra, Ghana), and forward <dfn><a id=\"sidearmAd4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=3939\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3939\">Samuel Dingba<\/a><\/dfn> (Yaounde, Cameroon). The four selections led the MAAC, as Fairfield and Siena each had three and Saint Peter&#8217;s had two (of the 17 players chosen overall).<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for MAAC All-Academic honors, a student-athlete must have completed at least two semesters at his current institution. Six players on the 2015-16 Bobcats roster are in their first years at Quinnipiac, meaning only nine were eligible to receive All-Academic distinction. Four of the nine qualified, while two others fell short by only a fraction of a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.quinnipiacbobcats.com\/news\/2016\/3\/4\/qu-mens-basketball-leads-maac-with-four-all-academic-selections.aspx &nbsp; HAMDEN, Conn. &#8211; The Quinnipiac men&#8217;s basketball team placed four players on the 2015-16 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic team, it was announced today by the league office.\u00a0 The four Bobcat selections were all sophomores, including guards Ayron Hutton (Virginia Beach, Va.), Greg Tarca (Montgomery, N.J. &#8211; pictured), and Jemaa Yuori (Accra, Ghana), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhsbasketball.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}