define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); academic progress – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:48:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court What’s Your APR? http://rushthecourt.net/2008/05/06/whats-your-apr/ http://rushthecourt.net/2008/05/06/whats-your-apr/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 22:49:32 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=857

No, not Annual Percentage Rate for all you creditworthy folks.  We’re talking about the Academic Progress Report (APR) for men’s basketball (who is regularly the lowest rated sport in D1).  Today the NCAA released the numbers that track athletes’ success (2003-07) in the classroom through retention, eligibility and graduation, and it appears that things are going to get a little dicey for some name-brand programs over the next twelve months. 

The APR has two classes of penalty – immediate and historic.  Immediate penalties are levied when a program is below the cutoff score of 925 (approximating a 60% graduation rate), and one [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2008/05/06/whats-your-apr/feed/ 2