Story by Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Athletic Communications & Media

Kansas City, Mo. – (2018 Daktronics-NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athletes – PDF) The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced that 63 Division I men’s basketball student-athletes have been named 2017-18 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Arizona Christian leads all institutions with five individuals.

In order to be nominated by an institution’s head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.