The numbers on the scoreboard read 180 and 3.0.

Those were the final tallies of the ASUN Honor Roll, which contained a record total of 180 Stetson student-athletes receiving academic distinction for posting a 3.0 GPA or better during the 2017-2018 school year.

In all, 73.5 percent of Stetson’s ASUN student-athletes earned a spot on the Honor Roll — another school record. (Student-athletes from football and men’s and women’s rowing compete in other conferences and were not included in the ASUN totals.) Stetson was one of five conference institutions to set school records for percentage of student-athletes on the ASUN Honor Roll, with the league itself reaching a new high for excellence with 73.6 percent of its student-athletes achieving Honor Roll status.

Jeff Altier, Stetson’s director of athletics, obviously was pleased and pointed to the core mission of Stetson Athletics.

“The quality of Stetson’s faculty and the rigorous academic program make this record-setting achievement very noteworthy,” Altier said. “While our coaches recruit smart, disciplined students to become athletes at Stetson, having them as a group achieve a grade-point average in excess of 3.0 is exceptional.

“Our mission is to develop students to become champions athletically, academically and within the community. Using the rigorous academic program of Stetson as the benchmark, we certainly hit the mark on developing academic champions.”

Impressively, for example, news of the Honor Roll arrived just one month after the Hatters nearly reached baseball’s College World Series. A total of 25 student-athletes from the team were included on the list, highlighted by star pitcher Logan Gilbert, who was selected in the first round of June’s Major League Baseball Draft.

Similarly, in late May, the NCAA’s multiyear Academic Progress Rate report for all Division I athletics teams nationwide revealed that nearly all of Stetson’s 17 NCAA sports performed well above the minimum threshold. Further, three of Stetson’s programs recorded perfect scores on the four-year report: beach volleyball, men’s cross country and women’s golf.