{"id":49751,"date":"2025-07-31T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49751\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:51:09","slug":"wm-mens-basketball-earns-academic-honors-from-the-nabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49751\/","title":{"rendered":"W&#038;M Men\u2019s Basketball Earns Academic Honors from the NABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.wydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crop-15.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-316282\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crop-15-500x281.jpeg\"\/><\/a>(Tribe Athletics)<\/p>\n<p>WILLIAMSBURG \u2014 William &amp; Mary men\u2019s basketball earned academic honors from the Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) recently. As a team, the Tribe received the Academic Excellence Award, while five student-athletes earned a place on the Honors Court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribeathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/keller-boothby\/17089\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17089\" target=\"_blank\">Keller Boothby<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tribeathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/nick-evans\/17084\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17084\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Evans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tribeathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/miles-hicks\/17085\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17085\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Hicks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tribeathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/finn-lally\/17200\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17200\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Lally<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tribeathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/chase-lowe\/17086\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17086\" target=\"_blank\">Chase Lowe<\/a> earned a place on the NABC Honors Courts thanks to their performance in the classroom. The NABC Honors Court includes junior, senior and graduate student men\u2019s basketball players who finished the 2024-25 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. It marked program\u2019s first Team Academic Excellence Award since 2018 for the Tribe and the fourth overall. W&amp;M posted a 3.22 team GPA at conclusion of the 2024-25 academic year, including a 3.36 during the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>The NABC\u2019s academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2,400 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25. W&amp;M was one of 100 Division I programs to earn the honor. A full list of Honors Court recipients and the following programs earned Team Academic Excellence Awards is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/nabc.com\/nabc_releases\/2025\/nabc-announces-2024-25-academic-award-honorees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NABC.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In its first season under Earl, the Tribe enjoyed one of the top turnarounds in the country, finishing with a 17-15 record. The 17 wins rank 12th in program history, while the program produced 11 CAA wins for just the fifth time. W&amp;M debuted a new style of play featuring a fast-paced tempo. The Green and Gold ranked among the national leaders in tempo, 3-point shooting, scoring, and assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Tribe Athletics) WILLIAMSBURG \u2014 William &amp; Mary men\u2019s basketball earned academic honors from the Association of Basketball Coaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-49751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}