PHILADELPHIA - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and student-athletes.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men's basketball programs that completed the 2025-26 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 2025-26 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher. The NABC's academic awards include honorees from all levels of college basketball.
Penn was honored to have five student-athletes named to the NABC Honors Court this year: recent graduates
Ethan Roberts and
Cam Thrower and rising seniors
TJ Power,
Augustus Gerhart and
Michael Zanoni. As a team, Penn was one of five Ivy League programs honored with the Team Academic Excellence Award along with Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Yale.
Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26.
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