NABC Honors Court List
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players.
Henderson State was named a recipient of the Team Academic Excellence Award, one of just three Great American Conference teams to earn this achievement. Also, Reddie players
Grey Garrison,
KJ Sykes,
Jabari West, and
Tyson Whybrew earned individual titles as members of the Honors Court.
This marks the seventh time since 2016 that Reddie Basketball has earned the prestigious award. Furthermore, 26 total players have been named to the Honors Court.
"We are tremendously proud of our team that had another successful academic year," said coach
Jimmy Elgas. " Congratulations to our players, but also a heart-filled THANK YOU to the entire Henderson State University community that is instrumental to our players' academic successes. It is great when our team continues to meet the championship standards of excellence we lay out for them as a program"
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 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.
"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 nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25.
