Fighting Illini Earn WBCA Academic Honorin a position Point out, Lead Big Ten in GPA

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Illinois ladies’s basketball crew has earned recognition for its work within the classroom final season, incomes honorable point out standing within the 2024-25 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll, which was introduced on Tuesday. The Fighting Illini posted a 3.597 mixed GPA in the course of the 2024-25 faculty yr, which ranked first amongst Big Ten applications for the second-straight season.

“I am so incredibly proud of Illinois having the highest team GPA in the Big Ten the past two seasons,” shared head coach Shauna Green. “It’s a testament to our team’s hard work in the classroom on a daily basis. We talk every day about being elite in everything that we do; we want our young women to have the same competitive spirit and drive in the classroom as they do on the court. We will continue to strive for excellence on the court and in the classroom.”

The WBCA Academic Top 25 acknowledges NCAA Division I, II, and III; NAIA; and two-year faculty ladies’s basketball groups throughout the nation that carry the best mixed GPAs inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for your complete season. The 2024-25 season is the thirtieth during which the WBCA has compiled the dignity rolls.

Illinois is one in all 115 Division-I ladies’s groups to earn a 3.0 mixed GPA or higher and ranks tied for thirtieth on the record for prime marks. The Fighting Illini’s 3.597 GPA is the highest mark within the Big Ten for the second consecutive marketing campaign after rating second within the league following Shauna Green‘s first season on the helm in 2022-23. 

In complete, 10 of the league’s 18 squads earned honorable point out standing from the WBCA: Illinois (T-30), Nebraska (39), Michigan State (47), Indiana (48), Minnesota (51), Iowa (56), Northwestern (70), USC (91), Ohio State (100), and Oregon (107).