University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Four UNC Asheville Men’s Basketball Student-Athletes Named to NABC Honors Court
07.17.2025 | Men's Basketball
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NABC has announced the recipients of the 2024-25 NABC Honors Court on Thursday (July 17) and the UNC Asheville men's basketball team had four individuals recognized: Connor Dubsky, Fletcher Abee, Greg Gantt Jr., and Jemal Davis.
Asheville's four Honors Court recognitions are a program high for most recognitions in a season.
The NABC Honors Court includes junior, senior, and graduate student men's basketball players who finished the 2024-25 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
The NABC's academic awards are presented annually to teams and athletes from all levels of college basketball.
"Education is one of the NABC's five core values, and we are proud to recognize the academic accomplishments of these programs and individual student-athletes across our sport," said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. "The dedication and hard work of these athletes, along with their coaches and support staff members who prioritize academic success, deserves to be widely celebrated."
Over 2,400 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court, and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25.
Abee, a three-time Honors Court recipient, holds a 3.83 grade-point average with a major in Interdisciplinary Studies. He was named the Big South Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year this past season, is a three-time Big South All-Academic Team Member, is a three-time College Sports Communicators All-District member, and is a three-time Division I-AAA Scholar Athlete recipient.
In his final season as a Bulldog, Abee started and played in 30 of Asheville's 32 games. He scored 304 points, grabbed 54 rebounds, handed out 36 assists, and finished the season as the Big South leader and No. 11 in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage at 43.4% and 11th nationally. Abee had a season-high 27 points at Central Arkansas on Nov. 24, where he went 9-19 from 3-point range to match his career-high of nine 3-pointers, which is No. 2 in the program record book for most triples in a game. On Dec. 21, at UNC Wilmington, Abee recorded his 300th career 3-pointer and finished his playing career with 341. Abee finished his Bulldog career with 202 3-pointers, putting him at No. 6 in program records for most career triples.
This is Gantt's second year on the Honors Court. Gantt played in all 32 games for Asheville in his final year as a Bulldog and made 27 starts. As a 6-8 forward, Gantt had 106 assists to 52 turnovers on the season, putting him at No. 4 in the league in assist/turnover ratio at 2.0 and No. 8 in assists, averaging 3.3 a game. Gantt was integral to Asheville's lineup this season, averaging 27.4 minutes per game. He recorded 196 rebounds and was second on the team, averaging 6.1 boards a game, and scored 132 points, averaging 4.1 a game.
In his lone season at Asheville, Davis played in 31 games and made five starts. He had 411 minutes of action on the court, averaging 13.3 minutes per game and 3.6 points per game.
Dubsky played in 28 games and made five starts in his first season at Asheville. He scored 125 points on the season and averaged 4.5 a game.
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