The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) unveiled its 2025-26 academic honors, with four North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) men's basketball programs receiving the Team Academic Award and 21 student-athletes named to the NABC Honors Court.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards honor programs that finished the 2025-26 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. Denison, DePauw, Wabash and Wittenberg were among the more than 400 programs recognized.

The NABC Honors Court recognizes men's collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the past season. To be named to the Honors Court, a student-athlete must be academically a junior, senior or graduate student and achieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher. DePauw led with nine nominees, while Wabash had five, Wittenberg had four, Denison had two and Wooster had one student-athlete named to the Honors Court.
 

Name	Institution	Field of Study
Jack Steinbach	Denison	Global Commerce
Kellon Smith	Denison	Psychology
Andre Ozlowski	DePauw	Finance
Billy Bach	DePauw	Economics
Brady Kunka	DePauw	Economics
Caleb Washington	DePauw	Global Health
Divine Adeyanju	DePauw	Psychology
Joe Smith	DePauw	Business Analytics
Owen Goddard	DePauw	Kinesiology
Patrick Joyce	DePauw	Economics and Political Science
Sam Jacobs	DePauw	Interdisciplinary Studies
Gavin Schippert	Wabash	Financial Economics
Grant Brown	Wabash	Economics
Josh Whack	Wabash	Rhetoric
Keegan Manowitz	Wabash	Financial Economics
Randy Kelley	Wabash	Psychology
Cal Bavineau	Wittenberg	Finance and Management
Dawson Scott	Wittenberg	Management Science
Eddie Brown	Wittenberg	Exercise Science
Tyler Galluch	Wittenberg	Accounting and Finance
Patrick Gale	Wooster	Urban Studies