HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. -- Hampden-Sydney College fifth-year guard and third-year team captain Adam Brazil (Mooresville, NC) has been named to the 2024-25 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division III All-America First Team, as voted on by NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division III. Adam becomes the first Tiger in program history to earn back-to-back NABC All-America honors after being named Third Team last season, and is only the third NABC First Team All-American since 1992 (Russell Turner, T.J. Grimes). The 5-10 guard led the Garnet & Grey to an overall record of 23-6 and into the Division III Men's Basketball Championships Sweet 16 with his 18.2 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists.
 
Brazil started all 29 games while playing 33.4 minutes per game, adding 50 three-point field goals, 45 steals, and one block. He shot 46% (185-405) from the field, including 29% (50-174) on three-pointers, and 85% (108-127) at the free throw line. Brazil led the team in points (528), scoring average, field goals, field goal attempts, three-pointers, three-point attempts, free throws, free throw attempts, free throw percentage, assists and steals. He scored a career-high 34 points vs. then No. 7 Randolph-Macon (11/13) … equaled his career-high with eight rebounds two times, most recent at Washington and Lee (1/15) … had a season-high eight assists vs. Shenandoah (12/17) … had a season-high four steals two times, most recent at Randolph (1/22) … equaled his career-high with one block at then (RV)Guilford (NC) (1/8) … had a career-high seven (7-11) three-pointers vs. SU (12/17) … and has played a career-high 39 minutes four times, most recent vs. (15)Redlands (CA) (3/14). Adam posted a team-best 25 double-figure scoring games, including three 30-point games among 12 20-point games, and has led the team in scoring 17 times, steals 12 times, assists 13 times and in rebounding two times.
 
Earlier this week, Brazil was named the NABC District 6 Player of the Year and All-District 6 First Team, while also selected to play in the NABC Division III All-Star Game on Saturday, March 22, at 1 p.m. at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has previously been named the 2024-25 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Men's Basketball Kurt Axe Player of the Year, and the ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year, to the Trevor Hudgins Award Top 15 Watch List, to the Bevo Francis Top 25 Watch List, as well as the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Division III National Player of the Week one time, to the D3hoops.com Team of the Week two times, the ODAC Offensive Player of the Week four times, and was also named to the All-Tournament Team for both the Hampden-Sydney Tip-Off Tournament (11/22-23) and the Charlie Cobb Classic (12/20-21). He completed his career as the only Tiger in the 115-year history of the program ranked among the Top 10 in career points, assists, steals, three-pointers, and games played. Adam is ninth in scoring with 1,586 career points in 122 career games, fifth in career assists with 390, and 10th in career steals with 151 … while his 240 career three-pointers and 122 career games are both believed to be among the Top Five all-time, as well.
 

2024-25 NABC Division III All-America First Team

Adam Brazil, Hampden-Sydney

Octavio Brito, Keene St.

Uchenna Egekeze, Calvin

Tristan How, NYU

Tate Ivanyo, Anderson

Devon Lewis, Cal Lutheran

Hank Morgan, Hamilton

Kevin Nowoswiat, Franklin & Marshall

Logan Pearson, UW-Platteville

Jaylen Savage, Nazareth

2024-25 NABC Division III All-America Second Team

Ryan Broeckel, Wisconsin Lutheran

Aidan Callahan, WPI

Kai Cipalla, York (PA)

Luke Frazier, John Carroll

Peter Gorman, Ramapo

Jahn Hines, Christopher Newport

Kamden Ross, Schreiner

Zevi Samet, Yeshiva

Ryan Thissen, Saint John's

Remijo Wani, Saint Joseph's (ME)

 

2024-25 NABC Division III All-America Third Team

Braxton Benham, Berry

Hayden Doyle, WashU

Shea Fitzgerald, Vassar

Henry Hinkle, Ohio Wesleyan

Deonte Jackson, LeTourneau

Marcus Montagnino, Endicott

Sean Neylon, Catholic

Gerard Nicholson, Baruch

Joshua Van Gorp, Central

Henry Vetter, Trinity (CT)