ONEONTA, N.Y. - The Oneonta men's basketball team received the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award, with four Red Dragons earning Honors Court recognition. Recent graduate Delano Knox (Poughkeepsie, NY/Arlington) and rising seniors Nicholas Cortez (Harlem, NY/Forest Hills), Hobson Herlihy (Lawrence, KS/Lawrence), and Ibrahim Wally (Brooklyn, NY/East NY Family Academy) all received the honors for the 2025-26 academic year.  

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. This season marks the first time since 2016-17 that the Red Dragons earned the Team Academic Excellence Award.

"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.