July 16, 2026
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court Wednesday, representing achievement in the classroom by men’s college basketball teams and individual players.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize 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 are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.
“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.”
Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26.
A total of three Frontier Conference schools were named to NABC Team Academic Excellence. They are Dakota State (S.D.), Montana Tech, and Rocky Mountain (Mont.).
Sixteen (16) Frontier Conference athletes were named to NABC Honors Court, led by Rocky Mountain with seven recipients. Montana Tech added five recipients, followed by Dakota State with four recipients.
Below are the lists of NABC Team Academic Excellence and NABC Honors Court from the Frontier Conference:
NABC Team Academic Excellence:
Dakota State (S.D.)
Montana Tech
Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
NABC Honors Court:
Aiden Jensen – Dakota State (S.D.)
Brayden Pankonen – Dakota State (S.D.)
Lukas Morgan – Dakota State (S.D.)
Taine Mitchell – Dakota State (S.D.)
Brayden Koch – Montana Tech
Connor Michaud – Montana Tech
Lane Love – Montana Tech
Levi Torgerson – Montana Tech
Owen Long – Montana Tech
Ata Gultekin – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Cameron Quinnell – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Carter McCoy – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Jacob Bilodeau – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Kade Erickson – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Mekhi Jourdan – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Royce Robinson – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)