Stratford Resident Named To NABC Honors Court

STRATFORD, CT — Stratford’s Bernard Brantley was among the six members of the Southern Connecticut State University men's basketball team to be selected as honorees for the National Association of Basketball Coaches' 2016-17 Honors Court.

Brantley, who completed his junior season as a member of the SCSU basketball team last winter, was selected along with teammates Michael Bozzuto (Wolcott, Conn.), Kayjuan Bynum (Springfield, Mass.), Jerry Luckett, Jr. (Milwaukee, Wisc.), Michael Mallory (Waterbury, Conn.) and Jonathan Paul (Westlake Village, Calif.). (To sign up for Stratford breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

In order to be named to the Honors Court, a student-athlete must meet a high standard of academic criteria. Student-athletes must be a junior or senior academically and a varsity player, have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher, matriculated at least one year at their current institution and be the member of a NCAA or NAIA institution with a NABC member coach.

Southern Connecticut finished the past year with a record of 18-13 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament, in its fourth straight NCAA appearance.