EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men's Basketball was honored by the National Association of Basketball Coaches with a Team Academic Excellence and eight Honors Court awards for 2024-25.
 
USI earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award after the Screaming Eagles completed the 2024-25 season with a combined 3.18 cumulative grade point average. The award recognizes programs that completed the academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.
 
USI also has received the Ohio Valley Conference's Team Academic Award (presented to the conference team with the greatest percentage of eligible student athletes that earn a 3.25 GPA or higher) for the last two seasons.
 
In addition to the team award, USI had eight of its 17 players named to the NABC Honors Court. To be named to the Honors Court, a student athlete must be a junior, senior, or graduate student who finished the academic year with a 3.2 GPA or better.
 
The Screaming Eagles named to the NABC Honors Court are junior center Alex Horiuk (Business Administration); junior guard Damoni Harrison (Sports Management); junior guard Jack Campion (Sports Management); graduate forward Jack Mielke (Master of Business Administration); junior guard Johnny Semany (Business Administration); graduate center Nick Hittle (Data Analytics), junior guard Ryan Hall (Master of Business Administration).