ATLANTA – The Drake University women's basketball program ranked seventh in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for the 2017-18 season with a 3.653 team grade point average, the WBCA announced Tuesday, July 31.
 
This year's award marks the fifth-straight season Drake, led by head coach Jennie Baranczyk, is ranked in the top 10 for the prestigious WBCA team academic honor.
 
The WBCA Academic Top 25 recognizes NCAA Division I, II and III; NAIA and junior/community college women's basketball teams across the nation that carry the highest combined grade point averages inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season. The 2017-18 season is the 23rd in which the WBCA has compiled the honor rolls.
 
A team's GPA is calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by the total number of hours attempted by all team members in the academic terms (semesters or quarters) that the season spans. Weighted grades are converted to a 4.0 scale. The GPA's are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point. Teams are nominated for the honor by a WBCA member head coach and a team must have a 3.000 or better GPA to be nominated.
 
Below is the top 10 for the 2017-18 WBCA Academic Top 25 for NCAA Division I:
 

Rank	Institution	Head Coach	GPA
1	University of Wisconsin, Green Bay	Kevin Borseth	3.753
2	Western Illinois University	Jd Gravina	3.751
3	St. Francis College	John  Thurston	3.749
4	Robert Morris University	Charlie Buscaglia	3.748
5	Loyola University Maryland	Joseph Logan	3.736
6	University of Idaho	Jon Newlee	3.691
7	Drake University	Jennie Baranczyk	3.653
8	South Dakota State University	Aaron Johnston	3.641
9	Creighton University	Jim Flanery	3.633
10	Youngstown State University	John Vogel	3.615