Men’s Basketball Earns NABC Team Academic Excellence Award; Six Named to Honors Court
The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Men’s Basketball team has earned a 2025-2026 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award, and six Trailblazers were named to the NABC Honors Court.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Men's Basketball team has earned the 2025-2026 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award, and six Trailblazers were named to the NABC Honors Court as announced earlier today.
Colby Burleson (Pittsboro, NC), Jaxen Potter (Ballston Spa, NY), Jake Bluestein (San Diego, CA), Kamau Franks (Converse, TX), Terrell McCoy (Alexandria, VA) and Brad Saint Louis (Norwich, CT) were six of over 2,300 players who earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Award.
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.
"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."
The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.