NABC Release
Honors Court Winners

Kansas City, MO| The  St. Joseph's University, New York (L.I.) men's basketball team was honored with a Team Academic Excellence Award when the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its end-of-year academic awards on Thursday morning.

Additionally, graduate Matt Coletti, senior Thomas Bell, and juniors Justin Turner and Matthew Maxwell collected NABC Honors Court accolades.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards "recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 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 2024-25 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher."

"Education is one of the NABC's five core values, and we are proud to recognize the academic accomplishments of these programs and individual student-athletes across our sport," said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. "The dedication and hard work of these athletes, along with their coaches and support staff members who prioritize academic success, deserves to be widely celebrated."

Over 400 programs and 2,400 players were honored across all three divisions.