GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Manhattanville University men's basketball team had four Valiants named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team®, the organization unveiled this week.

Graduate student Andrew Saint-Louis (Norwalk, Conn./Notre Dame Fairfield) makes the third Academic All-District® Team of his collegiate tenure and was joined by senior Daniel Marinaccio (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph By The Sea) and juniors John Ranaghan (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River) and Andrew Melillo (Staten Island, N.Y./Monsignor Farrell) making their second-consecutive appearances.

It is the second year in a row that the Valiants had four student-athletes recognized from men's basketball, the maximum number of allotted honorees the CSC permits for the Basketball Academic All-District® Teams.

CSC honors and celebrates the academic and athletic successes of student-athletes with the Academic All-District® Team. All student-athletes with standing of sophomore or greater both academically and athletically were eligible for nomination to the team this year. Athletes needed to have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average while competing in 90 percent of their institution's games or making starts in 66 percent of the team's games.

Saint-Louis capped off a decorated career this season, starting all 24 games he played in. The Norwalk, Conn. product became the 29^th player in program history to score 1,000 points in the Valiants' season opener, setting the stage for a season where he scored 14 points per game. Saint-Louis added 4.7 rebounds per contest and finished the year with 28 steals, four blocks and a career-high 73 assists. He opened the season on fire, scoring double-figures in seven straight games to begin the campaign and nine of the first ten.

Marinaccio played in all 26 games of his senior season, getting the start in 10. He had the best season of his career offensively this year, with his 128 points and 4.9 points per game setting new personal bests. Marinaccio also posted new career-highs in rebounds (60, 2.3 RPG), assists (23) and steals (22). He served as one of the most accurate deep shots on the Valiants, with his .354 three-pointer percentage ranking first among all Valiants with more than two three-pointers hit this season.

Ranaghan was another consistent of the Valiant lineup, playing in all 26 games and starting in every contest minus Senior Day. The junior ranked third on the team with 30.8 minutes per contest, putting up 10.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. Ranaghan added 42 assists, 24 steals and seven blocks to his docket as the guard continued to develop into one of the Valiants' most versatile players. His 23 points against Farmingdale on Jan. 17 was one shy of his career-high as he reached double-figures 15 times on the year.

Melillo saw action in all 26 games of his junior season as a reserve, playing better than 15 minutes per game. He finished with 2.5 points and 3.0 rebounds per game on the season, adding 37 assists, 18 steals and four blocks as one of the first reinforcements to come in off the bench. This is the second academic distinction Melillo has received this year along with being named the Skyline Conference's Elite 19 Award winner for holding the highest GPA amongst all competitors in the Skyline Conference Championship postseason tournament.

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