Five members of the University of Rochester men's basketball program were selected to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court, and the team as a whole secured NABC Team Academic Excellence honors, as announced by the NABC on Wednesday.
 
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2025-26 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 2025-26 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
  
Graduate Sam Henderson, seniors Nate Beitel and Corvin Oprea and juniors David Ackles and Theo Murray each garnered a spot on the Honors Court for their work in the classroom this past academic year.
 
"College basketball student-athletes do incredible things on the court, but their achievements in the classroom are equally worthy of celebration," said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. "Education is one of the NABC's core values, and the hundreds of programs and thousands of athletes represented on these awards reinforce the commitment to academic success that exists across all levels of our sport."
 
Rochester, as a team, earned the NABC's Team Academic Excellence Award for the eighth-straight year under Head Coach Luke Flockerzi, and for the 12th time in the last 13 seasons.
 
Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court, and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for the 2025-26 academic year, including seven of the eight University Athletic Association (UAA) members.