PHILADELPHIA – Men's Basketball, Women's Cross Country and Men's Tennis compiled the highest collective grade point average for their sport in the American Athletic Conference and were recognized today with the league's 2016-17 Academic Excellence Award.
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.
It marks the second straight year that Temple earned the award for men's basketball and the second time in the past four years that the Owls men's tennis team has been so honored.