KANSAS CITY. Mo., JULY 16, 2020 – The USF men’s basketball team continued its recognition for academic excellence on Thursday when the Bulls were named recipients of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellent Award.
The award recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2019-20 season.
The Bulls posted a semester-record 3.45 grade point average and ended the academic year with a 3.02 cumulative grade point average. In addition, 13 student-athletes earned a spot on the USF Athletics Honor Roll, and seniors Laquincy Rideau (West Palm Beach, Fla.) and Antun Maricevic (Zagreb, Croatia) both graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree.
The men’s basketball team also posted a perfect single-year APR score for 2018-19.
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About USF Men’s Basketball
The USF men’s basketball team is led by head coach Brian Gregory. On March 22, 2017, Gregory was introduced as the 10th head coach in program history. He previously led programs at Georgia Tech (2011-16) and Dayton (2003-11). Gregory spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach under Michigan State’s Hall of Fame head coach Tom Izzo and helped the Spartans win the 2000 NCAA National Championship. Gregory owns nearly 300 career head coaching wins and six postseason appearances, including the 2010 NIT Championship. In his second season at the helm of the Bulls, Gregory led the team to the best win turnaround in the NCAA, the most single-season wins in school history and the 2019 College Basketball Invitational championship.
USF has retired three numbers in its 47-year history: Chucky Atkins (12), Charlie Bradley (30) and Radenko Dobras (31). The Bulls have earned three NCAA tournament bids, appeared in the NIT eight times and won the 2019 College Basketball Invitational.
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