Men’s Hoops Earns NABC Academic Excellence Award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the recipients of the 2024-25 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court on Thursday (July 17). The awards represent achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players. This year, Bowling Green received the Team Academic Excellence Award with six players being named to the Honors Court. For BGSU, the five players include Javontae Campbell, Wilguens Jr. Exacte, DaJion Humphrey, Mohamed Maxamud, Greg Spurgin and Preston Squire.
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. The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.
Bowling Green is one of seven programs from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to earn the Team Academic Excellence Award. As for players, BGSU's six student-athletes join a list of 34 from the conference to be named to the Honors Court. During head coach Todd Simon's tenure at BGSU, the Falcons have received the Team Academic Excellence Award each season with at least three players named to the Honors Court each year as well.
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