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Two to miss NCAA Tournament due to APR
- Updated: April 20, 2016
College basketball on the whole is getting better in the classroom and in keeping its players eligible. The proof is in the latest NCAA’s report on its Academic Progress Rate (APR). The NCAA reports that the most recent figures — the year ending with 2014-15, culminating the most recent four-year rate — comes in at an all-time high of 979 across every sanctioned Division I sport. That’s up from last year’s four-year average mark of 978. (The highest possible mark is 1,000.)
Men’s basketball, specifically, is up from 961 to 964 on average across the past four years. If you’re curious, football sits at 959, also up three points from a year ago. Here’s how men’s hoops stacks up to the rest of D-I.
#NCAAhockey and #NCAAgym are tops in APR for both men and women. pic.twitter.com/IjnJB0bcxH
— NCAA Research (@NCAAResearch) April 20, 2016
The point of the APR is to try and keep schools honest, to keep players eligible and, in the process, reward them for doing so. By failing to reach the 930 four-year average, programs go on one-year postseason bans.
No FBS football programs face postseason bans. …
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