ATLANTA -- The Michigan Tech women's basketball team earned the second-best grade point average of any NCAA Division II women’s basketball program it was announced today by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. It is the second straight season the Huskies have ranked among the top five of the nearly 300 teams nationwide. They were fourth a year ago.
Michigan Tech boasted a team GPA of 3.639, which trailed by just a hundredth of a point to South Dakota’s 3.649.
“I’m extremely proud of the team and what they’ve accomplished in the classroom,” said head coach John Barnes. “It means even more that they won a conference regular season title and tournament championship.”
Tech posted a 23-8 overall record in 2007-08 and claimed both the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference North Division title and tournament championship. The Huskies also qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the third time under Coach Barnes.
Grade point averages are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by each student-athlete on an institution's roster in the given academic terms by the total number of hours earned by the team. The GPAs are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point.
Including Tech, the GLIAC placed five teams in the top 25: Gannon (ninth, 3.508), Ashland (15th, 3.439), Northwood (23rd, 3.398) and Findlay (25th, 3.385).
WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division II 1 University of South Dakota 3.649 2 Michigan Technological University 3.639 3 Seton Hill University 3.591 4 University of Nebraska - Kearney 3.590 5 West Texas A&M University 3.557 6 Regis University 3.528 7 Rockhurst University 3.526 8 Saint Martin's University 3.515 9 Gannon University 3.508 10 Southwest Minnesota State University 3.494 11 Shepherd University 3.488 12 West Liberty State College 3.481 13 Minnesota State University, Moorhead 3.476 14 University of North Dakota 3.474 15 Ashland University 3.439 16 Clarion University 3.420 T17 Abilene Christian University 3.413 T17 Winona State University 3.413 19 Seattle Pacific University 3.412 20 Bemidji State University 3.406 21 Montana State University - Billings 3.405 22 Franklin Pierce University 3.399 23 Northwood University 3.398 24 Colorado Christian University 3.396 25 University of Findlay 3.385
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