National Champion Women’s Basketball Makes WBCA Academic Top 25 Honor Roll
The national champion Hope College women’s basketball team has earned the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association's top academic honor for the 2021-22 school year.
The Flying Dutch made the WBCA’s Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division III after recording a 3.641 team grade point average.
Led by head coach Brian Morehouse, Hope captured the third NCAA championship in team history with a 71-58 victory against the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on March 19 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Flying Dutch finished with a 32-1 overall record. Hope also claimed an MIAA co-championship after posting a 15-1 league record.
To open the season, the Flying Dutch won their first 16 games, contributing to a 61-game winning streak that began during the 2019-20 season and is tied for the third-longest in Division III women’s basketball history.
The WBCA Academic Top 25 recognizes NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA and two-year college women’s basketball teams across the nation that carry the highest combined GPAs inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season.