COLUMBIA, Ky. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its academic award recipients for the 2025-26 season on Wednesday, recognizing the Lindsey Wilson men's basketball program with an Academic Excellence Award while five Blue Raiders earned Honors Court distinction.

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.

The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball. This is Lindsey Wilson's fourth Academic Excellence Award.

Lindsey Wilson was one of more than 400 programs nationwide to receive the NABC Academic Excellence Award for the 2025-26 season and the only Mid-South Conference institution to earn the honor.

Representing Lindsey Wilson on the Honors Court are two-time honorees Julian Cunningham (Business) and Olson Nicholson (Graduate Studies), as well as first-time recipients Daniel Deng Mabior (Business), Ethan Cooper (Business Administration), and Max Groom (Business).