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The University of Minnesota Duluth men’s basketball team again showed its prowess extends on and off the court after last season’s squad was named a 2024-25 NABC Team Academic Award winner. 

The Bulldogs also had six players named to the the NABC Honors Court, including  Austin Andrews (Structural Engineering, Sr.), Caleb Siwek (Finance, R-Jr.), Jayden Johnson (Communications, Sr.), Karon Abdullah (Graphic Design, R-Jr.), Mattie Thompson (Business, R-Sr.) and Noah Paulson (Business, R-Sr.).

Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing achievement in the classroom by men’s college basketball teams and individual players. 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, meanwhile, 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. The NABC’s academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.

The Bulldogs finished 20-9 overall last season — their fourth-straight season with 20 or more wins.