Big Ten Duo Named to Academic All-America First Team

ROSEMONT, Ill. – A pair of Big Ten males’s basketball student-athletes was honored on Tuesday, because the College Sports Communicators (CSC) introduced its 2025-26 Academic All-America males’s basketball groups.

Nebraska’s Sam Hoiberg and Northwestern’s Nick Martinelli have been named to the First Team.

Hoiberg, who graduated in December with a level in sports activities media and communications,  is the primary Husker males’s basketball participant to earn first-team Academic All-America honors since Shavon Shields in 2015 and 2016 and the tenth Academic All-American award earned by a Husker basketball participant, the primary since Kobe Webster scored third-team honors in 2021. Sam’s choice is a uncommon father-son accomplishment, as his father, Fred, was a first-team Academic All-American at Iowa State in 1995.

A four-time Academic All-Big Ten choice, Hoiberg led Nebraska to its most profitable season in program historical past, because the Huskers completed 28-7 document and this system’s first NCAA Sweet 16 look in 2025-26. He began all 35 video games, averaging 9.3 factors, 4.5 assists, 5.3 rebounds and a couple of.0 steals per sport, as he was second within the Big Ten in steals and eighth in assists per sport. He set a college document and completed ninth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.74-to-1) as a senior. 

This marks the second consecutive Academic All-America First Team honor for Martinelli, who joins Shon Morris as the one Wildcats to say First Team Academic All-America honors in consecutive seasons. The Communications Studies main is the fifth Northwestern participant to obtain first staff honors, becoming a member of Drew Crawford (2014), Mike Campbell (1980), Jim Burns (1967) and Morris. He turns into the 14^th Big Ten participant to earn First Team Academic All-America recognition in consecutive years because the honor started in 1963.

Martinelli concluded his collegiate profession by main the Big Ten in scoring for the second consecutive season. The All-Big Ten Second Team honoree averaged 23.0 factors, 6.2 rebounds, and a couple of.0 assists per sport whereas taking pictures 51.0% from the ground and 41.7% from past the arc. Martinelli’s 23.0 factors ranked eighth within the nation and have been essentially the most factors per sport by a Northwestern participant because the 1969-70 season. The Glenview, Ill. native scored a program-record 759 complete factors on the season, the Fifteenth-most in a single season by a Big Ten participant, and made a program-record 268 discipline targets.

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