KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, featuring the Seattle Pacific University men's basketball team and seven members earning NABC Honors Court recognition.
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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.
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The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.
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Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26. A full list of Honors Court recipients is available by clicking here.
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"This acknowledgment from the NABC is a special one for us," head coach
Keffrey Fazio said. "The team-excellence award and honors court recognition is a great way for our program to finish the year. Eight GNAC all-academic selections. The GNAC team academic championship, and now these honors from the NABC cap off a special year academically for us."
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The Falcons close out a successful academic year by earning the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award. SPU finished the year with a 3.54 and earned the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Academic Team title.
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The Falcons put eight players on the GNAC All-Academic Team, the most since the 2017-18 season. SPU led the GNAC in All-Academic Team selections with eight, two more than the next-closest team. Kinloch owned a 3.97 GPA, the highest of any player in the conference.
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