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hurleyfor3
09-13-2013, 12:46 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-13/harvard-hoop-champions-prove-ivy-laggard-in-ncaa-academic-report.html

"Harvard basketball’s academic progress rate has fallen steadily from 995 in the 2007-2008 year when head coach Tommy Amaker arrived. The team’s combined score of 956 for the past four years through 2011-2012 was the lowest in the Ivy League and below the average of 967 for all private colleges, according to NCAA reports released in June. "

The APR for 2011-12 alone was 925; the minimum to avoid sanctions is a 930 average over two years, or a 900 (soon to be 930) average over four years.

Duvall
09-13-2013, 01:00 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-13/harvard-hoop-champions-prove-ivy-laggard-in-ncaa-academic-report.html

"Harvard basketball’s academic progress rate has fallen steadily from 995 in the 2007-2008 year when head coach Tommy Amaker arrived. The team’s combined score of 956 for the past four years through 2011-2012 was the lowest in the Ivy League and below the average of 967 for all private colleges, according to NCAA reports released in June. "

The APR for 2011-12 alone was 925; the minimum to avoid sanctions is a 930 average over two years, or a 900 (soon to be 930) average over four years.

Then again:


A cheating scandal at Harvard that began last year may have played a role in the downturn in progress rates. About 125 undergraduates came under suspicion when teachers reported finding evidence of inappropriate collaboration on a take-home exam for a government course.

About half of those involved withdrew from school for as long as a year, including basketball co-captains Brandyn Curry and Kyle Casey, who took the 2012-2013 year off. Players who take a year off may affect a team’s academic-progress rate, said Stacey Osburn, an NCAA spokeswoman.

CameronBornAndBred
09-13-2013, 04:00 PM
To be fair...it IS Harvard, an institution with much higher than average academic standards. I'm guessing that if the same athletes bringing down the average had gone to UCONN, the Huskies would have had little to worry about in missing the postseason. (At least due to academics...they would have missed because they would have had the snot beaten out of them every game.)

MarkD83
09-13-2013, 08:12 PM
joke about academics.

Edouble
09-14-2013, 01:43 AM
Duke students can't spell Krzyzewski. UNC students can't spell Smith.