2024-25 Academic All-District® Men's Basketball Team(s) (PDF)

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. -- Hampden-Sydney College fifth-year guard and third-year team captain Adam Brazil (Mooresville, NC) has been named a member of the 2024-25 Academic All-District® Men's Basketball Team as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC) for NCAA Division III. The team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom.

Adam is an English major at the College with a 3.83 grade point average, a Dean's List student and member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society (Alpha Omicron Chapter), Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honors Society and the Wilson Leadership Fellows Program, and has accepted an offer to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is one of two Hampden-Sydney students on the College's Honor Courts' Appeals Committee, received The Deis-Frye Award for Creative Nonfiction, is a member of the CSC Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Second Team (2024) and is now a three-time member of the CSC Academic All-District® Men's Basketball Team (2022-23, 2023-24), while a four-time member of the ODAC All-Academic Team (2021-24). Adam has previously been named to the 2024-25 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division III All-America First Team, as well as the NABC District 6 Player of the Year and All-District 6 First Team ... and has also previously been named to the 2025 D3hoops.com All-America First Team and D3hoops.com Region 6 Player of the Year and All-Region 6 First Team, 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).

Brazil 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. He 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. 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.

Academic All-District® honorees were considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. Student-athletes selected as CSC Academic All-America® finalists are denoted with an asterisk and will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. Adam is among those being considered for Academic All-America® honors. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced April 15.

The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.