KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Piedmont men’s basketball team has once again earned the Team Academic Excellence Award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2023-24 season. Additionally, five student-athletes were also recognized by the NABC on the 2023-24 Honors Court.
Piedmont’s honorees:
#2 Griffin Neville
G / 6′ 2″ / Graduate Student
#32 Jesse Harbin
G / 6′ 2″ / Senior
#1 Joe Helenbrook
F / 6′ 8″ / Senior
#4 Noah Reardon
G / 6′ 1″ / Senior
#5 Ryan Jolly
G / 6′ 3″ / Graduate Student
For Harbin and Reardon, this marked their second time on the Honors Court listing, while Jolly earned the honor for a third year in a row.
This is the 11th straight season the Lions have earned the team academic honor, taking the award in each year under Head Coach Greg Neeley.
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men’s basketball programs that completed the 2023-24 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 2023-24 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
Over 2,100 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court, and over 360 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2023-24.
Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently has nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men’s basketball coaches.
