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National Association of Basketball Coaches Announces 2020-21 Team Academic Excellence Awards

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 28, 2021) -- The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) today announced the ninth annual Team Academic Excellence Awards, created by the NABC Committee on Academics. These awards recognize outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2020-21 season.

To earn a NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, institutions in the NCAA, NAIA and Two-Year Colleges must count the grade point averages of all men’s student-athletes on the basketball roster during the 2020-21 season.

About the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently has nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men’s basketball coaches. All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of today’s student-athletes. The five core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service, education and inclusion. For additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, go to www.nabc.com.

2020-21 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards

Allegheny College Bushnell University Colorado School of Mines Auburn University Cairn University Colorado State University Augsburg University California Columbia College Augustana University Cal State East Bay Concordia University Ann Arbor Austin Peay University Caltech Concordia University Wisconsin Azusa Pacific University Calvin University Connecticut College Babson College Carleton College Creighton University Baker University Carnegie Mellon University Creighton University Barry University Carthage College Crown College Baruch College Case Western Reserve University Culver-Stockton College Belmont University Castleton University D'Youville College Benedictine University Catholic University Dallas Baptist University Bentley University Centenary University (NJ) Denison University Biola University Chaminade University of Honolulu DePaul Athletics Bluffton University Clarkson University DePauw University Boston University Clemson University Dominican University (IL) Bradley University Coe College Drew University Bryn Athyn College College of Mount Saint Vincent East Carolina University

1 Eastern Washington University Midway University Springfield College Edgewood College Midwestern State University St. Ambrose University Elizabethtown College Molloy College St. Cloud State Elmira College Monmouth University St. Edward's University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. (AZ) Morningside College St. John Fisher College Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. (FL) Mount St. Joseph University Stanford University Emerson College Milwaukee School of Engineering Stephen F. Austin State University Florida Gulf Coast University Muhlenberg College Stevens Institute of Technology Florida Southern College Nazareth College Stonehill College Fort Hays State University New York University Suffolk University Franklin & Marshall College North Carolina A&T State University SUNY Oneonta Gallaudet University North Dakota State University Susquehanna University Geneva College Northeast Mississippi C.C. Swarthmore College Georgia College Northern Arizona University Temple University Gettysburg College Northern Michigan University Texas A&M University-Commerce Gonzaga University Northern Vermont University-Lyndon The College of New Jersey Grand View University Nova Southeastern University The College of Saint Rose Gwynedd Mercy University Ohio Valley University The College of St. Scholastica Hamilton College Oklahoma State Athletics The Ohio State University Hamline University Olivet Nazarene University The University of Scranton Hanover College Pace University The University of St. Thomas Hartwick College Palm Beach Atlantic University The University of Texas at Austin Harvard University Penn State Abington Transylvania University Hillsdale College Penn State Altoona Trine University Hofstra University Penn State Harrisburg Trinity University Hope College Peru State College Tulane University Houston Baptist Piedmont University U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Hunter College Principia College UC Irvine Husson University Purdue University Fort Wayne UMKC Illinois Wesleyan University Quinnipiac University Union College Indiana Institute of Technology Rice University Union University IUPUI Ripon College University of Alaska Anchorage John Brown University Roanoke College University of Arkansas - Fort Smith John Jay College of Criminal Justice Rockhurst University University of Arkansas at Monticello Kalamazoo College Rollins College University of Central Missouri Kentucky State University Roosevelt University University of Chicago Kentucky Wesleyan College Russell Sage College University of Delaware Kenyon College Rutgers University University of Hartford Lake Forest College Saint John's University University of Illinois Springfield Langston University Saint Joseph's College of Maine University of the Incarnate Word LaGrange College Saint Leo University University of La Verne Lehigh University Saint Martin's University University of Mary Lewis University Salve Regina University University of Mary Washington Liberty University San Francisco State University University of Minnesota Duluth Lincoln Memorial University Sarah Lawrence College University of Montana Loyola Marymount University Seattle Pacific University University of Nebraska Omaha Loyola University Chicago Seattle University University of North Dakota Macalester College Shenandoah University University of North Florida Maine Maritime Academy Simpson College University of North Georgia Marywood University South Dakota School of Mines University of Northwestern St. Paul Merrimack College Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ. University of Rochester Miami University Southern Illinois University University of Saint Katherine Michigan Technological University Southwest Baptist University University of San Francisco Midland University Southwestern University (TX) Pirates University of Tennessee 2 University of Toledo Washington & Jefferson College Wheaton College (IL) University of Utah Washington and Lee University Whitman College University of Virginia Washington College Whitworth University University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Washington University in St. Louis Willamette University University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Wayland Baptist University William Jewell College University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh Wayne State College William Peace University University of Wisconsin – Platteville Waynesburg University Winona State University Ursinus College Weber State University Wright State University Utah Valley University Wesleyan University Yeshiva University Vassar College Western Colorado University York College of Pennsylvania Villanova University Western Kentucky University Youngstown State Virginia Tech Western Michigan University Wabash College Westminster College (PA)

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