KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its eighth annual Team Academic Excellence Awards on Thursday with Western Michigan men's basketball being named to the list for the second straight year.

These awards recognize outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade points average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2019-20 season. It's the second straight year WMU has earned NABC Team Academic Excellence Award honors. The Broncos are one of four schools from the Mid-American Conference to earn the Team Academic Excellence Award.

During the 2019-20 season the Broncos posted a cumulative GPA of 3.28 including a 3.31 team GPA during the 2020 spring semester. Back in April WMU had a program record five student-athletes named to the Academic All-MAC squad. Since 2004 the Broncos have had a league-high 35 Academic All-MAC selections.

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 athletic lives of today's student-athletes. The four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education.