KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and student-athletes.

The Nanooks earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, which recognizes programs that completed the 2025-26 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. Additionally, seven Nanooks men's basketball players were named to the 2025-26 honors court: Davis Crilly, Jackson Krug, Jalai O'Keith, Jeremiah Hersrud, Luke Fotheringham, Tariq Weiser and Tyriq Luke. The NABC Honors Court 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. Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26.

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