Duke, 2001
• 2000 First Team Academic All-America®
• 2001 First Team Academic All-America®
Shane Battier was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame on June 15, 2015 in Orlando, Fla.
A champion at every level that he competed at, Shane Battier ranks among the greats at Duke University both on and off the court. As a senior in 2000-01, Battier led the Blue Devils to their third national championship under the winningest Division I men’s coach in history, 2013 Dick Enberg Award recipient and Naismith Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski. He swept all the major national player of the year honors along the way, including the Naismith Award and the John R. Wooden Award, named for the great UCLA coach and fellow Academic All-America Hall of Famer.
A two-time first team GTE Academic All-America® and the Academic All-America® of the Year in 2001, Battier led Duke to an 82-72 victory over Arizona in the 2001 NCAA national championship game played in Minneapolis. That triumph capped a 35-win season and marked the Blue Devils’ second appearance in the title game during his career. Battier was a three-time National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Defensive Player of the Year, and he combined with teammate Jason Williams as one of only two duos in Blue Devil history to score over 700 points in a season.
Battier was selected as the sixth overall pick in the 2001 National Basketball Association draft by the Memphis Grizzlies. He spent the first five years of his career in Memphis before moving to the Houston Rockets in 2006. Battier returned to the Grizzlies in 2011 before heading to Miami later that year to help the Heat win back-to-back NBA titles in 2012 and 2013.
A native of Birmingham, Mich. and a former Michigan “Mr. Basketball” out of Detroit Country Day School, Battier earned a degree in religion from Duke in 2001.
He embarked on a career as a commentator and studio host at ESPN after his retirement from the Heat following the 2014 NBA Finals.