KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Saint Peter's University men's basketball team, lauded nationally for its historic run to the Elite Eight in March during a captivating 2021-22 campaign, also posted a wildly successful academic year in the classroom, as the Peacocks garnered a 2021-22 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award on Tuesday, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by collegiate men's basketball teams and student-athletes.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men's basketball programs that completed the 2021-22 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 2021-22 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher. The NABC's academic awards include honorees from all levels of college basketball.
"Academic success is a core value of the NABC and a priority shared by men's basketball programs across the country," said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. "Excellence in the classroom requires hard work and dedication, and the NABC considers it a privilege to honor these deserving student-athletes and the coaches and staff who support them."
The men's program finished the academic year with a cumulative average GPA of 3.06, while six student-athletes from last year's squad that were juniors, seniors or graduate students posted cumulative GPAs of 3.2 or higher during that span to earn a spot in the NABC Honors Court:
Daryl Banks III,
Doug Edert,
Fousseyni Drame,
Hassan Drame,
Latrell Reid and
Matthew Lee.
Over 2,000 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 300 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2021-22.
