KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players as MSOE Men's Basketball earned the Academic Excellence Award with eight members of the Red and White earned Honors Court Recognition.
 
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."
 
Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26. Mason Accidentale, Brock Adams, Carson Cordelli, Chase Cummings, Mason Dopirak, Matus Dopirak, Joey Jendusa and Ethan Johnson were named to the Honors Court for the Red and White.

The Raiders finished the season with a record of 19-8 with a staggering 16-2 in conference action to earn a share of the regular season conference title and the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament. The Raiders had three all-conference selections, with Dopirak earning all-american honors on the court by NABC and D3Hoops.com, while also being named CSC Academic Team Member of the Year for Division III.
 
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