Cards Earn NABC Team Academic Excellence Award
July 11, 2019 | Men's Basketball, Academic Services
UofL men’s basketball team achieved a cumulative 3.265 GPA in 2018-19
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville men's basketball team has been recognized with a Team Academic Excellence Award by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for achieving a cumulative grade point average above a 3.0 for the 2018-19 season.
The men's basketball team has attained a collective 3.0 GPA for 21 of the last 22 semesters, including a 3.176 cumulative team mark for the Spring 2019 semester. The Cardinals produced a collective 3.265 grade point average for the 2018-19 academic year.
Eleven UofL men's basketball players were among 378 Cardinal student-athletes named to the 2018-19 ACC Academic Honor Roll, announced earlier this week. A league-high six Cardinals were honored on the 2019 All-ACC Academic Team and UofL has produced an ACC-best 31 men's basketball selections over its five years in the league.
Louisville has received an NCAA Public Recognition Award six of the last seven years for ranking among the top 10 percent in men's basketball in the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures academic eligibility, retention and graduation for student-athletes. Louisville is one of just nine Division I schools in the nation, including only two from Power Five conferences (Louisville and Stanford), which have earned the APR recognition in at least six of the last seven years. UofL is one of only nine Division I schools in the nation to have perfect men's basketball multi-year APR scores in at least four of the past six years.
The men's basketball team has attained a collective 3.0 GPA for 21 of the last 22 semesters, including a 3.176 cumulative team mark for the Spring 2019 semester. The Cardinals produced a collective 3.265 grade point average for the 2018-19 academic year.
Eleven UofL men's basketball players were among 378 Cardinal student-athletes named to the 2018-19 ACC Academic Honor Roll, announced earlier this week. A league-high six Cardinals were honored on the 2019 All-ACC Academic Team and UofL has produced an ACC-best 31 men's basketball selections over its five years in the league.
Louisville has received an NCAA Public Recognition Award six of the last seven years for ranking among the top 10 percent in men's basketball in the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures academic eligibility, retention and graduation for student-athletes. Louisville is one of just nine Division I schools in the nation, including only two from Power Five conferences (Louisville and Stanford), which have earned the APR recognition in at least six of the last seven years. UofL is one of only nine Division I schools in the nation to have perfect men's basketball multi-year APR scores in at least four of the past six years.
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