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. 
  
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. 
 
"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. 
 
Seniors Dominic Crapia and Adrian Pelszynski each made their way to this list of high-academic basketball players in the country.

Dominic Crapia a senior that majored in accounting and held a 3.27 GPA for all four years while being at Dominican. On the hardwood, Crapia scored 141 points while averaging 5.6 points per game along with 109 total rebounds. The four-year senior started in all 25 games this past season.

Adrian Pelszynski, a senior that majored in finance and held a 3.09 GPA for the years he attended Dominican. Pelszynski battled some injuries this past season, playing in 12 games while starting in 6. Adrian scored 102 points on the year while shooting 36% from downtown. The senior lit up the floor on his senior day, scoring 20 points on 6-10 shooting from deep and leading the Stars to a win.