HARTFORD, Conn. – For their efforts in the classroom, the 2025 NCAA Division III National Champions Trinity College Men's Basketball received the 2024-25 Team Academic Excellence award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Wednesday afternoon. Four members of the Men's Basketball team were recognized as 2024-25 NABC Honor Court selections.
 
For the fourth time since the award's inception following the 2013-14 season the Bantams have claimed Team Excellence honors. The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.
 
Seniors Will Dorion (Needham, Mass.) and Sean Macarchuk (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), along with juniors Trevor McDonald (Natick, Mass.) and Henry Vetter (Kenilworth, Ill.) graced the 2024-25 NABC Honors Court team. Four selections are the most the program has earned in a season, besting the trio of honorees from 2016-17 (Eric Gendron, Connor Merinder and Langdon Neal). Dorion becomes the program's second two-time NABC Honors Court selection, joining Merinder (2016-17, 2018-19), while Macarchuk, McDonald and Vetter claim their first Honor Court selection. The NABC Honors Court, meanwhile, includes junior, senior and graduate student men's basketball players who finished the 2024-25 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
 
Marlynn V. and William P. Scully Head Men's Basketball Coach James Cosgrove, the 2024-25 NABC Division III Coach of the Year, guided the Bantams to the program's first NCAA Division III National Championship in 2024-25. Cosgrove led the Bantams to a 30-3 record, matching the program-high for wins in a season (2023-24), capped with a 64-60 victory over top-ranked New York University in the title game on March 22. Trinity collected their second straight New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship, earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship field.
 
The Bantams hosted the opening four rounds of the tournament, defeating Neumann, Keene State, Western New England and Catholic to punch back-to-back trips to the Final Four in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Trinity battled past NESCAC-rival Wesleyan University, 73-69, to earn their first-ever spot in the National Championship game.
 
This season, the Bantams were one of the top defensive teams in the country, limiting opponents to 57.3 points per game and a 35.6% mark from the field, both lowest in the Nation. In the Championship game, Trinity held the Violets to 60 points, their lowest total on the season.