ST. LOUIS – One hundred ten student-athletes highlight more than 2,000 of those to earn selection to the 2020-21 Missouri Valley Conference Honor Roll, as announced by the league office. Those 110 student-athletes earned the league's highest academic achievement by capturing the Missouri Valley Conference Presidents' Council Academic Excellence Award.
The Presidents' Council Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum 3.8 cumulative grade point average, participation in athletics a minimum of two years, and the student-athlete must be within 18 hours of graduation (by the end of the Spring 2021 semester). Also, 894 student-athletes received the league's Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award, which requires a minimum grade point average of 3.