UT Martin Men’s Basketball Receives 2025-26 Ohio Valley Conference Team Sportsmanship Award
3/30/2026 10:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference announced today that the University of Tennessee at Martin is the recipient of the 2025-26 Team Sportsmanship Award for men's basketball.
Voted on by the student-athletes and coaches of the respective sports, the team awards are bestowed upon the Conference squads deemed to have best exhibited the standards of sportsmanship and ethical behavior as outlined by the OVC and NCAA. Included in the areas of evaluation are the conduct of student-athletes, coaches, staff, administrators and fans.
The 2025-26 school year marks the 21st year the team sportsmanship honors have been awarded. It marked the second such award for the Skyhawk men's basketball program as UT Martin previously won the honor during the 2010-11 campaign.
Implemented in August 2005, the team honors are the most recent addition to an awards program that recognizes and celebrates sportsmanship within the Conference. In 1998, the league established the Steve Hamilton Sportsmanship Award, presented annually to a male or female student-athlete of junior or senior status who best exemplifies the characteristics of the late Morehead State student-athlete, coach and administrator. Five years later, the Conference added the OVC Sportsmanship Award.
In 1995, the OVC implemented a first-of-its-kind "Sportsmanship Statement", a policy promoting principles of fair play, ethical conduct and respect for one's opponent. The statement answered the challenge of the NCAA Presidents Commission to improve sportsmanship in collegiate athletics and has become a model for others to follow across the nation.
Voted on by the student-athletes and coaches of the respective sports, the team awards are bestowed upon the Conference squads deemed to have best exhibited the standards of sportsmanship and ethical behavior as outlined by the OVC and NCAA. Included in the areas of evaluation are the conduct of student-athletes, coaches, staff, administrators and fans.
The 2025-26 school year marks the 21st year the team sportsmanship honors have been awarded. It marked the second such award for the Skyhawk men's basketball program as UT Martin previously won the honor during the 2010-11 campaign.
Implemented in August 2005, the team honors are the most recent addition to an awards program that recognizes and celebrates sportsmanship within the Conference. In 1998, the league established the Steve Hamilton Sportsmanship Award, presented annually to a male or female student-athlete of junior or senior status who best exemplifies the characteristics of the late Morehead State student-athlete, coach and administrator. Five years later, the Conference added the OVC Sportsmanship Award.
In 1995, the OVC implemented a first-of-its-kind "Sportsmanship Statement", a policy promoting principles of fair play, ethical conduct and respect for one's opponent. The statement answered the challenge of the NCAA Presidents Commission to improve sportsmanship in collegiate athletics and has become a model for others to follow across the nation.
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