KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2025-26 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. The NABC Honors Court, meanwhile, includes junior, senior and graduate student men's basketball players who finished the 2025-26 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.
"College basketball student-athletes do incredible things on the court, but their achievements in the classroom are equally worthy of celebration," said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. "Education is one of the NABC's core values, and the hundreds of programs and thousands of athletes represented on these awards reinforce the commitment to academic success that exists across all levels of our sport."
Rollins did a phenomenal job in the classroom, posting a cumulative team GPA of 3.45 among their 15 student-athletes. The Tars have earned the Team Academic Excellence award every since its inception.
In addition, eight individual Tars were named to the Honors Court:
Omar Figueroa,
Ian Hart,
Michael Kalina,
Marshall Klug,
Matus Malovec,
Michael Niemann,
Ryan Renfro, and
Caleb Samuel.
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