New York, NY - The National Association of Basketball Coaches announced the recipients of the 2021-22 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards and NABC Honors Court, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by men's basketball teams and student-athletes spread out over all divisions of the NCAA. The Hunter men's basketball team was one of more than 300 programs recognized while also having five players earn Honors Court accolades.
 
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men's basketball programs that completed the 2021-22 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. The NABC Honors Court, meanwhile, includes junior, senior and graduate student men's basketball players who finished the 2021-22 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.

Individually, Barrett Lowe (Media Studies), Hiroki Hamazaki (Meida Studies), Raheem Bakary (Psychology), Ryan Lau (Human Biology) and Windel Edouard (Political Science) all earned inclusion to the NABC Honors Court.

During the 2021-22 season, the Hawks finished with a 13-13 overall record with a 7-7 mark in league action. They posted their highest win total since the 2010-11 season and made it to the semifinals of the CUNYAC Tournament, their best showing in the last six seasons. Additionally, the Hawks were statistical champions in six different categories and lead all of Division III in 3pt field goal attempts, offensive rebounds/game, steals/game, total rebounds/game, total steals and turnovers forced. Further, they were second in the nation in assists/game, 3pt field goals per game and total 3pt field goals made. The team averaged nearly 107 points per game and eclipsed the 100pt mark 18 times and topped out at 136 points in a single game