KANSAS CITY, Mo. - On Thursday, July 17 the The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the 2024-25 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing achievement in the classroom by men's college basketball teams and individual players. Luther was one of the nearly 400 programs receiving the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award while three players Jeremy Andera, Will Bockenstedt and Harrison Hilyer were named to the NABC Honors Court. 

Luther was one of the eight teams in the American Rivers Conference to earn the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award which also included Central, Coe, University of Dubuque, Loras , Nebraska Wesleyan University, Simpson and Wartburg.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 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 2024-25 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.