KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Western Michigan men's basketball seniors
Seth Dugan and
Bryce Moore were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) 2017-18 Honors Court on Tuesday.
The NABC Honors Court recognizes those men's collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the past season. In order to be named to the Honors Court, a student-athlete must be a junior or senior and have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
Western Michigan men's basketball had two of the three student-athletes from the Mid-American Conference. Eastern Michigan's Paul Jackson was also named to the NABC Honors Court.
Moore this past season registered a 3.28 GPA in accounting en route to earning Academic All-MAC honors for the second consecutive year. Moore was also named a MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete.
Dugan is named to the NABC Honors Court after earning a 3.96 GPA in finance. The senior center was named Academic All-MAC and Distinguished Scholar Athlete this past season for the second year in a row. Dugan also became the first Bronco since 2015 to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District.
About the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)
Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently has nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men's basketball coaches. All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletics lives of today's student-athletes. The four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education.
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