KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) today announced the 2020-21 NABC Honors Court, recognizing men's collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the past season. The Susquehanna University men's basketball team had a program-record seven members of its program named to the Honors Court.
John Kozinski '21 (West Chester, Pa./Bishop Shanahan) is making a repeat appearance on the NABC Honors Court while Bryce Butler '21 (Abingdon, Md./Suffield Academy [Conn.]), Ryan Collins '22 (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks), Danny Frauenheim '22 (Point Pleasant Beach, N.J./Point Pleasant Beach), Jay Martin '22 (Columbia, Md./River Hill), Jack Van Syckle '22 (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright), and Lukas Yurasits '22 (New York, N.Y./Berkeley Carroll) are all making their first Honors Court appearances.
To be named to the Honors Court, a student-athlete must meet a high standard of academic criteria. The qualifications are as follows:
- Academically, a junior or senior and a varsity player.
- Cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.2 or higher after the 2020-21 academic year.
- Students must have matriculated for at least one year at their current institution.
- Member of an NCAA Division I, II, III, or NAIA Division I or II institution with an NABC member coach.
In all, head coach Frank Marcinek has mentored 23 players to 32 appearances on the NABC Honors Court. This year's selection of seven players to the Honors Court is a program record and the most since landing five in 2015-16, 2018-19, and 2020-21. Coach Marcinek has had at least three players named to the Honors Court for six consecutive seasons now.
"This has been an exceptional group of men to work with and represent Susquehanna University men's basketball. They have succeeded at the highest level both on the court and in the classroom," Marcinek said. "Our championship culture requires consistency of effort and this group has been able to raise the bar of what we expect from one another."
The NABC began recognizing the academic achievement of men's collegiate basketball student-athletes with the first Honors Court in 2006-07. Susquehanna has had players honored in 2008-09 (3), 2015-16 (5), 2016-17 (3), 2017-18 (4), 2018-19 (5), 2019-20 (5), and 2020-21 (7).
Kozinski finished his Susquehanna academic career with a 3.39 GPA as a luxury brand marketing & management major while Butler, who was named the 2020-21 Landmark Conference Men's Basketball Senior Scholar-Athlete, earned a 3.23 GPA as a finance major in his final year at SU.
Collins posted a 3.78 GPA as an accounting major and Frauenheim notched a 3.29 GPA as a finance major while Martin tallied a 3.47 GPA as a political science and legal studies double major.
Van Syckle garnered a 3.70 GPA as an accounting and economics double major while the highest GPA came from Yurasits with a 3.95 GPA as a physics and chemistry double major.
All seven were named to the 2020-21 Landmark Spring Academic Honor Roll.
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