KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2024-25 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 men's basketball 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 Franciscan Men's Basketball team earned the Team Academic Excellence honor for the fourth season in a row. The Barons also had seven players named to the Honors Court. For the second season in a row, Nicholas Allienello, Derrick Derrow, and Yann Yonkeu earned his honor. Frank Bellissimo, Reece Miller, Malachi Rose-Burton, and Travis Zimmerman earned this recognition for the first time in their Franciscan careers.

Over 2,400 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-2

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