Five Butler Teams Earn 2025-26 BIG EAST Academic Excellence Awards

The BIG EAST Conference has announced the recipients of its 2025-26 Team Academic Excellence Awards, recognizing the conference's top-performing teams in the classroom across each of its 22 sponsored sports. Butler's five programs recognized – men's basketball, softball, women's soccer, women's indoor track and field, and women's outdoor track and field – tied for the conference-high with St. John's. The conference recognized one team in each sport, with the annual awards highlighting the outstanding academic achievements of BIG EAST student-athletes during the 2025-26 academic year. The awards are presented annually to the team in each conference-sponsored sport that records the...