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Men’s Basketball Earns Second Straight American Academic Excellence Award
7.11.17 | Men's Basketball
PHILADELPHIA – Men's Basketball earned its second straight American Athletic Conference Academic Excellence Award. Women's Cross Country and Men's Tennis also earned the league's top academic honor for 2016-17. The award is given to the team that compiles the highest collective grade point average for their sport in the American Athletic Conference.
The selections are made by the conference's Academic Affairs Committee. The winners were chosen based on the 2016-17 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster as of the last contest of the championship segment in each conference-sponsored sport.
This is also the first time that three Temple teams have earned the conference's highest team academic honor and the second time in the past four years that the Owls men's tennis team has been so honored. Two Owl teams were represented in the prior three years of the league.
2016-17 American Athletic Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards
Baseball - East Carolina
Men's Basketball – Temple
Women's Basketball – USF
Men's Cross Country – Cincinnati
Women's Cross Country – Temple
Football – Cincinnati
Men's Golf – Memphis
Women's Golf - East Carolina
Women's Rowing – SMU
Men's Soccer – Memphis
Women's Soccer – Memphis
Softball – Houston
Men's Swimming and Diving – SMU
Women's Swimming and Diving – SMU
Men's Tennis – Temple
Women's Tennis – Memphis
Men's Indoor Track and Field – Tulsa
Women's Indoor Track and Field – Tulane
Men's Outdoor Track and Field – Tulsa
Women's Outdoor Track and Field – Tulane
Women's Volleyball - UCF
The selections are made by the conference's Academic Affairs Committee. The winners were chosen based on the 2016-17 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster as of the last contest of the championship segment in each conference-sponsored sport.
This is also the first time that three Temple teams have earned the conference's highest team academic honor and the second time in the past four years that the Owls men's tennis team has been so honored. Two Owl teams were represented in the prior three years of the league.
2016-17 American Athletic Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards
Baseball - East Carolina
Men's Basketball – Temple
Women's Basketball – USF
Men's Cross Country – Cincinnati
Women's Cross Country – Temple
Football – Cincinnati
Men's Golf – Memphis
Women's Golf - East Carolina
Women's Rowing – SMU
Men's Soccer – Memphis
Women's Soccer – Memphis
Softball – Houston
Men's Swimming and Diving – SMU
Women's Swimming and Diving – SMU
Men's Tennis – Temple
Women's Tennis – Memphis
Men's Indoor Track and Field – Tulsa
Women's Indoor Track and Field – Tulane
Men's Outdoor Track and Field – Tulsa
Women's Outdoor Track and Field – Tulane
Women's Volleyball - UCF
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