KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the recipients of the 2025-26 Team Academic Excellence Award and the Honors Court, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball student-athletes. The NABC Honors Court featured eight Florida Southern College student-athletes among the 2,300 athletes honored.
 
The Mocs saw eight players, Amare Miller, Charlie Dalton, Donovan Smith, Elijah Walsh, Erickson Bans, Luke Reilly, Riley Buccino, and Spencer Schomers, represent Florida Southern on the NABC Honors Court, with Miller, Smith, and Buccino all as repeat members from the 2024-25 season. The team also earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award.

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.

The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.

"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."

Over 2,300 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2025-26. A full list of Honors Court recipients is available by clicking here.
 
The Moccasins are set to host another year of the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic Nov. 7-8 inside the George W. Jenkins Field House to open the season.