Cobbers & Nine Players Earn NABC Academic Honors

Moorhead, Minn. (7/30/15)—For the second straight year Concordia earned the prestigious National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award, created by the NABC Committee on Academics.

In addition to the team award, Concordia placed a record-setting nine individuals on the NABC Honors Court list. Corey Abbas, Brett Bergeson, Jordan Bolger, Casey Bruggeman, Matt Ellingson, Scott Flotterud, Tom Fraase, Brady Syverson and Aaron Zimmer all earned the honor given to juniors and seniors who have at least a 3.20 grade point average.

As a team the Cobbers finished the 2014-15 season with a 3.20 team grade point average and were one of only four schools from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to earn the academic distinction. It marks the second straight season that the team has earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence award.

In order to earn a NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, institutions in NCAA Division I, II, III, and NAIA Division I and II, must carry a team GPA of 3.00 or higher and count the grade point averages of all men's student athletes who competed during the 2014-15 season.

The NABC awarded the academic excellence award in 2014-15 to less than 200 schools in all of NCAA and NAIA.

The nine individual players who made the NABC Honors Court list are the most ever for a Concordia team. The Cobbers also had the second highest individual total among all in NCAA Division I, II, III, and NAIA Division I and II schools.

The Cobbers earned its second MIAC playoff berth in the past three seasons in 2015. Concordia finished the year with an 11-9 record in conference play which was good for fifth place in the MIAC standings. CC was 15-11 overall which marked the second time in the past three seasons that the Cobbers have won at least 15 games in a year.
 

Complete NABC Team Academic Award release (pdf)