Graduation Rates - APR

So for the past few years the NCAA has been claiming they are going to clamp down on all collegiate teams with poor grades/graduation rates. This has been going on since I was a student athlete and the system is a joke. For instance, if someone on your team transfers they count towards not graduating from you team. So if "John Genius" transfers from Duke because Coach K was touching him inappropriately, it counts against the doOKies in their APR score.

This is more interesting though: they evaluated the tournament teams this year and here are the results.

#1 North Carolina - 86% graduation rate, #1 Pitt - 69% graduation rate, #1 Louisville - 42% graduation rate, #1 UCONN - 33% graduation rate

21 of the 65 teams have an APR score below the cutoff, which means penalties, or so the NCAA says.

40 teams had a gradutation rate of 50% - SOLID

These were based on freshman who entered school in the 1998-99 and 2001-2002 school years.

Team with 100% graduation rate (AKA not winning the National Championship): Binghamton, Florida State, Marquette, Robert Morris, Utah State, Wake Forest, and Western Kentucky.Lowest Graduation Rates: Cal State Northridge (8 %), Maryland (10 %), Portland State (17 %), Arizona (20 %)and Clemson (29 %).

Wow, awesome work for the NCAA. They are publishing statistics that were from at least a few years ago. I love how the Terps had a terrible graduation rate during their prime years, which included the National Championship. Inside information: I was there the year Maryland won. I saw those guys in study hall and they would have thought Dave Neal was on the cheerleading squad. They had no regard for human life, and they all knew they were going pro after they won in the Big Dance. Lonny Baxter had a hooked up escalade rolling in College Park a few days after they came back, not to mention a sound system that rivals a NYC Club and three chicks in the backseat. News flash, the only doctor who was good at basketball was Dr. J, and I'm not sure he received his doctorate in anything besides interior post play.

Shocker: Jay Bilas loves Duke's change in line-up. I'm shocked he got that out with Coach K's milli-meter monster deep in his throat.