Villanova’s student-athletes loom large on the field and court, but they’re just as dominant off it too.

The Wildcats just shattered last year’s high mark in academic excellence with back-to-back school records in their NCAA Academic Progress Rate recognition.

The NCAA bestowed public recognition awards to 15 Villanova athletic programs for attaining a rank in the top 10 percent of their sport nationwide.

The new record was led by the Villanova tennis teams — the men have been recognized eight years in a row and the women six years straight — as well as men’s basketball, men’s cross country, field hockey, football, golf, rowing, men’s swimming and diving, men’s track and field, volleyball, water polo, women’s basketball, women’s soccer, and women’s swimming and diving.

The 15 awards are most among the Big East universities and also the teams in this year’s men’s NCAA basketball tournament.

The student-athletes’ scores are based on four consecutive years of data, and the collective GPA stands north of 3.0.