FOR RELEASE – Wednesday – July 29, 2015 – 12 Noon (EDT) Contact: Rick Leddy, NABC 203-815-2437 / ([email protected]) National Association of Basketball Coaches Announces 2014-15 Team Academic Excellence Awards KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) today announced the third annual Team Academic Excellence Awards, created by the NABC Committee on Academics. These awards, earned by more than 175 colleges and universities, recognize outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2014-15 season. @NABC1927 invites you to share the success of these student athletes using #NABC #TEAMEXCELLENCE. In order to earn a NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, III, and NAIA Divisions I and II, must count the grade point averages of all men’s student-athletes who competed during the 2014-15 season. 2014-15 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards Alfred University Concordia University (OR) Lake Erie College Alma College D’Youville College Lawrence Technological Univ. American University Dallas Baptist University Lawrence University Ashland University Denison University Lewis University Austin College Dominican University Lynn University Azusa Pacific Dominican University (CA) Lyon College Bard College Drake University Macalester College Belmont Abbey College Eastern Washington University Malone University Belmont University Emory & Henry College Marywood University Beloit College Emory University Messiah College Bentley University Florida Southern College Metropolitan State University Bluffton University Franklin College of Denver Briar Cliff University George Fox University Michigan Technological University Caldwell University Gettysburg College Midland University California Baptist University Grinnell College University of Minnesota Duluth California Institute of Technology Hamilton College Molloy College California State Univ. East Bay Hampden-Sydney College Mount Aloysius College Calvin College Harvard University Nazareth College Carleton College Hendrix College Nebraska Wesleyan University Carnegie Mellon University Hobart and William Smith Colleges New York University Castleton University Holy Cross College North Dakota State University Central Michigan University Holy Names University University of North Florida Coe College Hood College Northwestern-St. Paul Colby College Idaho State University Ohio Wesleyan University Colgate University Illinois Wesleyan University Oklahoma Christian University College of Mount Saint Vincent Indiana University East Oswego State Colorado Christian University Johns Hopkins University Pacific Lutheran University Colorado College Juniata College Piedmont College Colorado School of Mines Kalamazoo College Pittsburgh-Greensburg Columbia University Kansas Wesleyan University Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Concordia College (MN) Kenyon College Post University 1 Principia College Stevens Institute of Technology University of the Sciences Rhodes College Summit University University of Texas Rice University SUNY Oneonta Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Rockhurst University SUNY-New Paltz Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Rogers State University Swarthmore College Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Rollins College The Citadel Urbana University Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology The College of St. Rose Utah Valley University Saint John’s University (MN) The College of St. Scholastica Valley City State University Saint Joseph’s College (ME) The University of Scranton Vassar College Saint Xavier University Trine University Wabash College Salve Regina University Trinity University Washington U. in St. Louis Seattle Pacific University Union College (NY) Wayne State University South Dakota Mines & Technology University of Alaska-Anchorage Waynesburg University Southern Connecticut State Univ. University of Chicago Wesleyan University Southwestern College (KS) University of Missouri-Kansas City Westminster College (UT) Southwestern Oklahoma State University of Northern Iowa Westminster College (PA) Southwestern University University of Redlands Whitworth University Springfield College University of Rio Grande Willamette University St. Ambrose University University of Rochester William Jewell College St. Edward’s University University of South Carolina Worcester Polytechnic Institute Stanford University Yale University The 2014-15 NABC Honors Court, recognizing individual men’s collegiate student-athletes for academic excellence, will be released on Thursday, July 30, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. EDT. 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 four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education. For additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, go to www.nabc.org. 2.