KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and the NABC Honors Court on Wednesday afternoon to honor the achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players.
The Thomas More University men's basketball program earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award after achieving a team GPA above 3.0. Three members of the team were named to the NABC Honors Court: junior
Cam McClain (Louisville, KY / Louisville Trinity), senior
Colin McHale (Cincinnati, OH / Turpin / Walsh), and graduate student
Ryan Paris (Hilliard, OH / Hilliard Davidson / Indiana University South Bend) after finishing the 2025-26 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher and had finished their junior year.
"College basketball student-athletes do incredible things on the court, but their achievements in the classroom are equally worthy of celebration," said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. "Education is one of the NABC's core values, and the hundreds of programs and thousands of athletes represented on these awards reinforce the commitment to academic success that exists across all levels of our sport."
For a full list of programs that earned Team Academic Excellence Awards,
click here and for a full list of Honors Court recipients,
click here.
