INDIANAPOLIS —
The NCAA is keeping the academic performance procedures it uses to determine postseason eligibility, an issue that has angered Connecticut after the Huskies’ men’s basketball team was banned from the postseason.
The NCAA said Friday that its Committee on Academic Performance decided the current system uses the most accurate data available and provides the fullest opportunity for appeals.
Under rules implemented last October, the NCAA requires a team to have a 900 APR average over four years or a 930 over two years to qualify for the postseason. The NCAA recently released its annual Academic Progress Rate report for 2010-2011 and UConn received a 978 of a possible 1,000 — not enough to allow the team to qualify for the 2013 NCAA tournament.
UConn knew last fall it would be banned and in January filed an appeal for an NCAA waiver, citing improving academics and other changes in the program. But that appeal was denied. UConn wants the NCAA to use data from 2011-12, arguing that tougher academic standards should not be applied retroactively to scores recorded before the rule was in effect.
Sports
July 13, 2012
NCAA keeps APR system, penalties the same
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Baxter's Elias places second in 400 meters
Cody Thorn/Special to The Globe Colton Mays of Rose Hill nips Kacey Elias of Baxter Springs by .01 seconds for first-place honors in the Class 4A 400 meters on Saturday afternoon at Cessna Stadium in Wichita.
- Lynn fights off cramp to win state tennis title
- Crusaders end Bulldogs' hopes in quarterfinals
- Cards' Williams medals in state track
- Mercer accepts baseball position at Baxter Springs
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- Pittsburg State Sports
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Three in Borgard family followed parents to athletic careers at MSSU
Courtesy photo The Borgards posed for a family picture at Missouri Southern's Fred G. Hughes Stadium (left to right): Stacy Courtney, Brian, Rick, Sharon, Chris and Shannan.
Without Rick Borgard’s knee injury midway through his high school football season and Sharon Fees’ change of mind before entering college, the Missouri Southern blood that runs predominantly through their family may have never started pumping.
Continued ... - Lynn fights off cramp to win state tennis title
- Hardy earns All-America honor in high jump
- Cards' Williams medals in state track
- Tony Roper Memorial set tonight at Monett
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