KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2025-26 academic year with a team grade point average 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.
A total of seven Landmark Conference men's basketball programs were named to the Academic Excellence team, while 36 student-athletes were named to the Honors Court.
Team Academic Excellence: Catholic University, Drew University, Elizabethtown College, Juniata College, Lycoming College, University of Scranton, Susquehanna University,
| 2025-26 NABC Honors Court |
| Institution |
Name |
Major |
| Catholic University |
Andrew Nields |
Biology |
| Catholic University |
Brian Herbert |
Biology Pre-Med |
| Catholic University |
Charley Hepting |
Business Administration |
| Catholic University |
Chris Rubayo |
Management |
| Catholic University |
CJ Ruoff |
Business Administration |
| Catholic University |
Googie Seidman |
Accounting |
| Catholic University |
Jamie Ntiamoah |
Business Administration |
| Drew University |
Andre De Los Reyes |
Business |
| Drew University |
Charlie Thornton |
Business |
| Drew University |
Connor Jepson |
Accounting |
| Drew University |
Eli Yusavage |
Psychology |
| Drew University |
Jack Garside |
Finance |
| Drew University |
Kevin Cronin |
Business |
| Drew University |
Taylor Perlmutter |
Cybersecurity |
| Elizabethtown College |
Augie Brody |
Communications |
| Elizabethtown College |
Austin Finarelli |
Finance |
| Elizabethtown College |
Ben Stanton |
Business Analytics |
| Elizabethtown College |
Chikezie Emmanuel |
Legal Studies |
| Elizabethtown College |
Crew Wells |
Engineering |
| Elizabethtown College |
EJ Finney |
Finance |
| Elizabethtown College |
Luis Guzman Maldonado |
Business |
| Elizabethtown College |
Reese Ziegler |
Marketing |
| Elizabethtown College |
Woody Machado |
Marketing |
| Juniata College |
Ben Landesman |
Integrated Media Arts |
| Juniata College |
Dylan Kreis |
Business Analytics |
| Juniata College |
Ty Kocak |
Finance |
| Lycoming College |
Ethan Bomgardner |
Business Administration |
| Lycoming College |
Lane Yoder |
Communication and Media Studies |
| Susquehanna University |
Allen Cieslak |
Business |
| Susquehanna University |
Audric Washington |
Education |
| Susquehanna University |
Billy Anderson |
Business |
| Susquehanna University |
Brandon Lavitt |
Business |
| Susquehanna University |
Emezie Egeonu |
Computer Science/Marketing |
| Susquehanna University |
Jackson Van Wagener |
Business |
| Susquehanna University |
Mario Castro Sanchez |
Business |
| Susquehanna University |
Seamus Rogers |
Business |