Five TCU men’s basketball players earned Academic All-Big 12 Conference honors Thursday.
Seniors Vladimir Brodziansky, Dalton Dry, Clayton Crawford and Austin Sottile received first-team honors and senior forward Ahmed Hamdy earned a spot on the second team.
In the Frogs’ sixth season in the Big 12, these five honorees made a new record for the team. TCU also had the most honorees in the Big 12 this season. Kansas State, Texas, Texas Tech and West Virginia each had four selections.
Brodziansky, a psychology major from Prievidza, Slovakia, leads the team in scoring with 15.5 points per game while shooting 57.4 percent from the field. This is the second season in a row that the Slovakian has earned academic all-conference honors. The preseason All-Big 12 Conference honoree is also a finalist for the Kareem-Abdul Jabbar Center of the Year and the Senior CLASS Award.
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Dry, a management major from Fort Worth, is in his fourth season with the program. He has appeared in nine games this season and has scored 13 points.
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Crawford, a finance and real estate major from Aspen, Colorado, is in his first season with the team after beginning his TCU athletic career on the men’s golf team.
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Sottile, an accounting major from St. Louis, is in his second season with the team.
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First team members must have a 3.20 or higher GPA, and the second team selections need to have a GPA ranging from 3.00 to 3.19.
To qualify for consideration, student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher either cumulatively or in the two previous semesters as well as participate in 20 percent of their team’s scheduled contests. First-year and transfer students are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. Senior student-athletes who have participated for a minimum of two years and meet all the criteria except percent of participation are also eligible.