IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa men’s basketball team earned the 2024-25 National Association Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award and five Hawkeyes were named to the NABC Honors Court, it was announced Thursday by the NABC.

Iowa’s individual honorees included Even Brauns, Josh Dix, Riley Mulvey, Payton Sandfort and Drew Thelwell.  It is the second straight year Mulvey and Sandfort earned the distinction.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 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.

More than 2,400 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25.  The awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.