Men's Hoops Earns NABC Academic Honor

[AdaSooner]

Congrats to OU men's basketball team for being one of only seven teams from the five power conferences and one of only two Big 12 schools (Texas and ISU were the other two) to earn this honor. The team's cumulative GPA average of 3.06 was a program record.


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[skyvue]

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This is great news -- very proud of our guys.

 

[tycat947]

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This is great news -- very proud of our guys.

+1!

 

[StatGeek]

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Not to take away from the players academic achievements but CLK is amazing!! Great work by all involved, now improve on it some more!!

 

[BigTime]

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Boomer, boys. Boomer.

 

[DenverSooner]

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I am glad you posted this. These guys deserve a lot of recognition for this.

 

[coolm]

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that is HUGE!

getting it done on AND off the court is the brass ring.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Yes indeed, this is huge!

OU, which recorded a program-record 3.06 GPA, was one of 28 Division I teams to meet the award's criteria. Only six other teams from the five “power” conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC) were also honored. Those schools are co-Big 12 members Iowa State and Texas, and Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina and Stanford.

I am not surprised that Stanford is on the list. I am surprised that no team from the "academic snobbish" Big-10 made the list. I'm sure they would say that "our classes are tougher, so it is more difficult to keep a 'B' average" in the mighty Big-10

Big-12 (3)
> Oklahoma
> Iowa State
> Texas

Southeastern Conference (3)
> Florida
> Kentucky
> South Carolina

Pac-12
> Stanford

Congrats to all these basketball programs. It would really be big if OU could stay on the list for the 2014-15 season.

In order to earn an NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, institutions must count the GPAs of all men's basketball student-athletes who competed during the 2013-14 season.

Based on this quote, it helps if the walk-on players are good students, as they do get to compete in some games during the season.

 

[BigTime]

Lol @ Kentucky being on there.