{"id":794073,"date":"2026-07-23T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/794073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:45:14","slug":"kent-state-earns-wbca-academic-special-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/794073\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent State Earns WBCA Academic Special Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 The Kent State women&#8217;s basketball team earned a Special Mention by the Women&#8217;s Basketball Coaches Association upon the WBCA&#8217;s Academic Top 25 announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Flashes posted an impressive 3.602 team grade point average for the 2025-26 academic year, which ranked second among Mid-American Conference programs. Kent State boasted a league-best eight Academic All-MAC honorees this past season.<\/p>\n<p>The WBCA Academic Top 25 recognizes college women&#8217;s basketball teams across the nation in their respective divisions that carry the highest combined GPAs inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season. The 2024-25 season is the 30th in which the WBCA has compiled the honor rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Kent State Women&#8217;s Basketball<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor complete coverage of Kent State Women&#8217;s Basketball, download the official Kent State Golden Flashes app (<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fkent-state-goflashes%2Fid1513427432&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjfiorel2%40kent.edu%7C9e98014fb6f0403b478308dd46dca113%7Ce5a06f4a1ec44d018f73e7dd15f26134%7C1%7C0%7C638744635624472844%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=z5e4Xuh6sgrF%2BXfZUESH7DxGlWfuj6oDCZCWo2qNUC8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/kent-state-goflashes\/id1513427432. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iOS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.sidearmsports.kent%26hl%3Den_US%26pli%3D1&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjfiorel2%40kent.edu%7C9e98014fb6f0403b478308dd46dca113%7Ce5a06f4a1ec44d018f73e7dd15f26134%7C1%7C0%7C638744635624499611%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=69h1FzQiHD0vds6WW4%2FRQ8Etmcfh28%2FItlZCof0s8OQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.sidearmsports.kent&amp;hl=en_US&amp;pli=1. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Android<\/a>) and follow the Golden Flashes on social media on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KentStWbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/KentStWbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KentStWBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> for news and updates.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 The Kent State women&#8217;s basketball team earned a Special Mention by the Women&#8217;s Basketball Coaches Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-794073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116971013616904952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}