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In 2021, the Davidson College Sports Information team shared a press release from the A-10 about the number of students listed on the A10 Honor Roll. We wrote an article then, and maintain the same today, that the raw numbers fail to acknowledge the size of the member institutions.

We updated the math in 2023 when a similar press release was issued and shared.

So, here we are again. Today, the A-10 published the 2024 version of the press release. Without reinventing the wheel, we did a quick check to see if there have been any dramatic changes in the number of students at the top 5 schools listed in the press release.

The A-10 press release only provides the raw numbers of how many made the list.

University of Massachusetts                                   370

Fordham                                                                  342

George Mason                                                         327

Davidson                                                                  319

St. Joseph’s                                                              315

The additional math that we did then, and again today, is fairly simple. We take the number of scholar-athletes on the “A-10 Honor Roll” press release and factor in the size of the overall student body at the respective colleges/universities. Here are the enrollment numbers for the top five schools.

University of Massachusetts                                   32,000

Fordham                                                                  16,986

George Mason                                                         39,521

Davidson                                                                    1,927

St. Joseph’s                                                               8,415

When you use the numbers of students on the honor roll and divide it by the student population, you get a very different picture. Davidson catapults from number four to number one, and has four times the percentage of the second closest school.

Davidson                                                                                    16.55%

St. Joseph’s                                                                                 4.01%

Fordham                                                                                       2.01%

University of Massachusetts                                                         1.16%

George Mason                                                                                .83%

We stand by our decision to make this distinction. We still think it is important to highlight the number of scholar-athletes at Davidson College and to specifically recognize the 319 who made the Honor Roll.

Editor’s Note: the 32,000 number for UMass was in a press release announcing that they will be leaving the A-10 in July 2025 and joining the MAC.