KANSAS CITY, Mo. –- The National Basketball Coaches Association (NABC) has retroactively named the Augustana men's basketball team a recipient of the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, also awarding eight Vikings Honors Court status.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.

The NABC Honors Court 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. 

Honors Court Recipients

Anthony Cooper
Bryan Teo
Chase Larsen 
Dani Romero
Evan Ambrose
Matt Hawkins
Mike Hamilton
Nicolas Giliberto

The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball. Over 2,400 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25.