KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2022-23 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and student-athletes.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men's basketball programs that completed the 2022-23 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 2022-23 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
As a team, VMI earned the distinction by meeting the 3.0 standard for the team GPA requirement to receive the Team Academic Excellence award.
A cadet-athlete by its very name, recently graduated senior Sam Wolfe '23 was named to the NABC Honors Court.
Wolfe qualified by a large margin having graduated as VMI's valedictorian for the Class of 2023 as voted upon by his peers for completing his degree in biology with a perfect 4.0 GPA and stellar efforts on the basketball court.
The senior from Charlotte, North Carolina, saw significant playing time in his final year and finished with the third highest three-point percentage on the team at .375. He earned two starts on the year and played a crucial role in VMI's win at The Citadel and the home finale against Wofford this past season.
An Army commission, Wolfe begins medical school this fall at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Over 1,800 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 300 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2022-23. A full list of Honors Court recipients is available by clicking here.
