KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Loras College men's basketball program received the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award, the NABC announced Thursday morning. Five Duhawk student-athletes also made the NABC Honors Court.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court represent achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players. The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men's basketball programs that completed the 2024-25 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Kyle Kober, Emmett Loew, Connor Mosele, Patrick Quarnstrom, and Johnny Semany  were named to the NABC Honors Court, which honors junior, senior, and graduate student men's basketball players who finished the 2025-26 academic 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.

"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 over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26. A full list of Honors Court recipients is available by clicking here.