Duke Tops NCSA power rankings

[niveklaen]

http://www.ncsasports.org/who-is-ncs...ngs-division-1

Good to see Duke atop these rankings and happy to see Notre dame next.

Odd to see UNC with only a 130 graduation rate ranking giving all their special programs...

[BD80]

http://www.ncsasports.org/who-is-ncs...ngs-division-1

... Odd to see UNC with only a 130 graduation rate ranking giving all their special programs...

If you don't have to attend class or do work to get class credit, how can you fail to graduate??????

[94duke]

http://www.ncsasports.org/who-is-ncs...ngs-division-1

Hope I didn't miss any, but here are the ACC (and soon to be ACC) schools from the OP link:

Power Rank	School				US News Rank	Grad Rate Rank	Director's Cup	Power Score
1		Duke University			10		18		16		15
1		University of Notre Dame	19		8		17		15
10		Boston College			31		18		60		36
16		Wake Forest University		25		44		92		54
17		University of North Carolina	29		130		8		56
20		Virginia Tech			71		81		35		62
23		University of Virginia		25		149		15		63
29		University of Miami		38		119		59		72
44		Syracuse University		62		161		50		91
62		University of Maryland		55		254		27		112
79		Clemson University		68		254		54		125

[Bluedog]

http://www.ncsasports.org/who-is-ncs...ngs-division-1

Good to see Duke atop these rankings and happy to see Notre dame next.

Odd to see UNC with only a 130 graduation rate ranking giving all their special programs...

Duke and Notre Dame actually tied for the #1 spot (both with "power scores" of 15). Interestingly, if they used the most recent U.S. News rankings (which came out last month), Duke and ND still would have tied since Duke moved up to #8 and ND to #17.

[hurleyfor3]

Wait... USN&WR already uses graduation rate (of the overall student body) in its rankings. And this dealie has a separate category for student-athlete graduation rate. So there's a bit of autocorrelation here.

[ForkFondler]

Silly.