AUSTIN, Texas – Gonzaga's Corey Kispert was named the 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for Division I Men's Basketball. Kispert headlines the 2020-21 Academic All-America Division I men's basketball team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and announced Friday.
 
Kispert is the seventh Zag to earn Academic All-American First Team honors, and the first since Nigel Williams-Goss in 2017. Kispert was selected as the 2021 DI-AAA ADA Men's Scholar postgraduate recipient, and was named to the Division I-AAA ADA Men's Scholar Athlete Team.
 
A native of Edmonds, Washington, Kispert is pursuing a graduate degree in business administration. Kispert, who helped lead the Zags to the NCAA national championship game, carries a 3.79 GPA in his graduate course work after earning a 3.49 as an undergrad.
 
Kispert was named the Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year, averaging 18.6 points a game and 5.0 rebounds. He finished the season sixth in Division I, shooting 44 percent from beyond the arc. He was also fifth in the country in total points (595), seventh in three-point field goals made (91), and eighth in total field goals made (209).
 
Kispert was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year and was a consensus First Team All-American. Kispert was named a Senior CLASS All-American, and First Team All-American by the Associated Press, NABC and USBWA. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, Naismith Trophy, Lute Olson Award, and John R. Wooden Award.
 
Kispert played in 137 games during his collegiate career at GU, and he won 126 of those contests. He is the winningest Div. 1 college basketball player in the last 25 years for student-athletes that appeared in at least 100 games. Kispert ended his Bulldog career tied for third in program history with 126 wins. He ranks fourth all-time at GU with 270 made three-pointers in his career, and 12th with 1,586 points.
 
Three of the 17 members of the Academic All-America Division I Men's Basketball teams boast a perfect 4.0 GPA, including Ben Vander Plas (Ohio University), who carries a perfect GPA through both undergrad and graduate school. The five members of the first team have an average GPA of 3.79, with the entire men's team holding a collective average GPA of 3.69. Matt Pile (University of Nebraska Omaha) is the lone repeat selection among the Academic All-America Division I men's basketball teams. He earned first team honors in 2019-20 and was a third team selection during the 2018-19 season.
 
For more information regarding the Academic All-America program, visit https://academicallamerica.com/.
 
CoSIDA Academic All-America Team Member of the Year:
Corey Kispert, Gonzaga University
 

FIRST TEAM
Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major
Max Abmas	Oral Roberts University	So.	3.69	Biomedical Chemistry
Ian DuBose	Wake Forest University	Gr.	3.84/3.80	Liberal Studies
Corey Kispert	Gonzaga University	Gr.	3.49/3.79	Business Administration
Matt Pile (1)(%)	University of Nebraska Omaha	Sr.	3.95	Chemistry
Franz Wagner	University of Michigan	So.	4	Organizational Studies
SECOND TEAM
Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major
Charles Bassey	Western Kentucky University	Jr.	3.57	Interdisciplinary Studies
Oscar da Silva	Stanford University	Sr.	3.49	Biology
Cameron Krutwig	Loyola University Chicago	Sr.	3.45	Entrepreneurship
Hunter Schofield	Dixie State University	Sr.	3.94	Exercise Science
Ben Vander Plas	Ohio University	Gr.	4.00/4.00	Sports Administration (G)
THIRD TEAM
Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major
Tareq Coburn	Hofstra University	Sr.	3.74	Community Health
Cam Davis	U.S. Naval Academy	Sr.	3.46	Ocean Engineering
Matt Dentlinger	South Dakota State University	Jr.	4	Mechanical Engineering
Brady Manek	University of Oklahoma	Gr.	3.63	Management (UG) / MBA (G)
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Villanova University	So.	3.56	Communication
Luke Smith	Belmont University	Sr.	3.65	Business Administration
Kobe Webster	University of Nebraska	Gr.	3.75/3.75	Educational Administration

 

1. = 2019-20 1^st team Academic All-America®

(%) = 2018-19 3^rd team Academic All-America®