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Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country and Men's Golf Earn BIG EAST Academic Honors
8/7/2019 12:03:00 PM | Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country / Track, Men's Golf, Academic Services
New York, N.Y. -- The BIG EAST Conference recognized 22 teams with the 2018-19 Team Academic Excellence Award for having the highest collective grade-point averages in each conference sport. Three Creighton teams collected the prestigious honor as Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country and Men's Golf earned the nod for the second consecutive season.
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Butler and St. John's tied for the most with four certificates. Creighton and Seton Hall had three. DePaul and Villanova each had a pair of teams earn certificates, while Georgetown and Marquette, and affiliate schools Temple and Denver rounded out the award with one nod apiece.
Creighton has had six teams honored a total of 16 times by the BIG EAST since joining the league six years ago. The women's cross country team holds the most for Creighton with four (2014, 2016, 2018 & 2019), women's basketball (2016, 2018 & 2019) and women's golf (2014, 2015 & 2016) have been recognized three times. Men's golf earned the honor for the second season (2018 & 2019), joining men's tennis (2016, 2017) and men's cross country (2015, 2016) programs were honored twice each.
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The winners were chosen based on the 2018-19 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster as of the last contest of the championship segment in each conference-sponsored sport.
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Butler and St. John's tied for the most with four certificates. Creighton and Seton Hall had three. DePaul and Villanova each had a pair of teams earn certificates, while Georgetown and Marquette, and affiliate schools Temple and Denver rounded out the award with one nod apiece.
Creighton has had six teams honored a total of 16 times by the BIG EAST since joining the league six years ago. The women's cross country team holds the most for Creighton with four (2014, 2016, 2018 & 2019), women's basketball (2016, 2018 & 2019) and women's golf (2014, 2015 & 2016) have been recognized three times. Men's golf earned the honor for the second season (2018 & 2019), joining men's tennis (2016, 2017) and men's cross country (2015, 2016) programs were honored twice each.
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The winners were chosen based on the 2018-19 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster as of the last contest of the championship segment in each conference-sponsored sport.
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| Sport | Institution | Award Winning GPA |
|---|---|---|
| Baseball | St. John's | 3.44 |
| Field Hockey | Temple | 3.52 |
| Men's Basketball | Seton Hall | 3.21 |
| Men's Cross Country | Marquette | 3.55 |
| Men's Golf | Creighton | 3.78 |
| Men's Indoor Track & Field | Butler | 3.40 |
| Men's Lacrosse | St. John's | 3.48 |
| Men's Outdoor Track & Field | Butler | 3.56 |
| Men's Soccer | Seton Hall | 3.52 |
| Men's Swimming & Diving | Georgetown | 3.59 |
| Men's Tennis | Villanova | 3.52 |
| Softball | DePaul | 3.59 |
| Volleyball | Seton Hall | 3.62 |
| Women's Basketball | Creighton | 3.61 |
| Women's Cross Country | Creighton | 3.71 |
| Women's Golf | St. John's | 3.70 |
| Women's Indoor Track & Field | Butler | 3.62 |
| Women's Lacrosse | Denver | 3.46 |
| Women's Outdoor Track & Field | Butler | 3.62 |
| Women's Soccer | St. John's | 3.79 |
| Women's Swimming & Diving | Villanova | 3.56 |
| Women's Tennis | DePaul | 3.71 |
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