KANSAS CITY, Mo. – For the fifth time in six seasons, the Michigan Tech men's basketball team has earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2025-26 season.
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.
In addition to the team award, the Huskies saw nine student-athletes named to the NABC Honors Court List:
Drew Barrie, Sr., Civil Engineering
Ethan Heck, Jr., Mechanical Engineering
Gabe Smith, Jr., Civil Engineering
Josh Terrian, Sr., Finance
Luke Hazelton, Jr., Exercise Science
Marcus Tomashek, Sr., Forestry
Matt Schmainda, Jr., Biomedical Engineering
Nate Abel, Grad., Finance
Peyton LaCombe, Sr., Biomedical Engineering
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.
