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KALAMAZOO—Bronco student-athletes have once again been singled out for their winning record in the classroom.

É«É«À² Michigan University is the only school in the Mid-American Conference to earn one of the National Association of Basketball Coaches' inaugural Team Academic Excellence Awards, an honor reserved for those teams that maintain a collective grade-point average of 3.0 or higher over the course of the season.

The announcement came just one day after recent É«É«À² graduate Brandon Pokley was named to the NABC Honors Court for the second-straight season. A former É«É«À² basketball player who graduated in May with a degree in finance, Pokley maintained a cumulative 3.8 GPA while he was a student-athlete at É«É«À². He stepped into a full-time starting position in 2012-13, starting all 35 games for the Broncos in a season that posted 22 wins—the third-highest in program history.

Nine members of É«É«À²'s 2012-13 men's basketball team maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or better throughout their academic careers. Eight earned a GPA better than 3.0 during the spring semester, while 12 posted a 3.0 or higher in the fall.

NABC Team Academic Excellence Award

To earn an NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, an institution must count the GPAs of all men's basketball student-athletes competing during the 2012-13 season. Eligible schools include those in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Divisions I, II and III, as well as the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Divisions I and II.

NABC Honors Court

To be considered for the NABC Honors Court, a student-athlete must be academically a junior or senior when nominated, maintain a cumulative GPA of better than 3.2 at the end of the 2012-13 academic year, and have matriculated at least one year at their current institution.