Huskies men’s basketball earns NABC Team Academic Excellence Award
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For the fifth time in six seasons, the Michigan Tech men’s basketball team has earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2025-26 season.
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.
“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.”
In addition to the team award, the Huskies saw nine student-athletes named to the NABC Honors Court List: Drew Barrie, Sr., Civil Engineering; Ethan Heck, Jr., Mechanical Engineering; Gabe Smith, Jr., Civil Engineering; Josh Terrian, Sr., Finance; Luke Hazelton, Jr., Exercise Science; Marcus Tomashek, Sr., Forestry; Matt Schmainda, Jr., Biomedical Engineering; Nate Abel, Grad., Finance; Peyton LaCombe, Sr., Biomedical Engineering.
The NABC’s academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.
Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26.