Men's Basketball

Saint Joseph's Earns Third Consecutive NABC Team Excellence Award

Posted: Jul 16, 2020

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) this week announced the eighth annual Team Academic Excellence Awards, created by the NABC Committee on Academics, and Saint Joseph's College is one of 313 teams from around the nation to earn the honor.

These awards recognize outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2019-20 season. To earn an NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, institutions in the NCAA (all three divisions), NAIA and NJCAA must count the grade point averages of all men's student-athletes who competed during the 2019-20 season. The honor marks the third-consecutive year in which Saint Joseph's has claimed the national academic accolade.

Saint Joseph's is one of two teams from the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) to earn the academic accolade as Suffolk University joins the Monks on the distinguished list.

Also, St. Joe's is one of just four Maine institutions – along with Bates College, Maine Maritime Academy, and UMaine-Farmington - to claim honors this summer.

Under the watch of 17th-year Head Coach Rob Sanicola '99 this winter, the Monks went 12-14 with a 6-5 GNAC record en route to claiming the #5 seed in the conference tournament. St. Joe's suffered a season-ending GNAC Quarterfinal loss at #4 Anna Maria College on February 25th.

2020 NABC TEAM ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.