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Reviewing ACC Basketball Graduation Rates

KCarpenter — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:45:54 +0000

To be honest, on average, the graduation rates for men’s college basketball players have increased everywhere. To be completely honest, the graduation rates for student-athletes as a whole have improved. Still, let’s take a minute and appreciate how this trend holds up in the Atlantic Coast Conference: All in all, basketball players are graduating at better rates that they once did in the ACC, and at a rate that’s better than the national average for men’s college basketball players. So, that’s something.

But is it the whole story? No, but since the NCAA loves nothing if not thorough documentation, we can [...]

Maryland Responds

rtmsf — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:42:09 +0000

With respect to yesterday’s story about Gary Williams’ 0% graduation rate, Maryland has since responded with a press release stating that all ten of its players that qualified under the latest GSR ratings left school before graduation to pursue professional basketball careers. These players include:

Chris Wilcox (left after two seasons for the NBA draft) Juan Dixon (four-year player) Lonny Baxter (four-year player) Steve Blake (four-year player) Terrence Morris (four-year player) Tahj Holden (four-year player) Drew Nicholas (four-year [...]

Gary Williams Hates Graduation

rtmsf — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:59:53 +0000

Yesterday the NCAA released its latest graduation rate figures for all D1 athletes who entered school in the classes of 1997-2000. Unlike the federally-mandated graduation rate, the GSR (Graduate Success Rate) is more realistic for athletes – it gives each player six years to complete his degree and it does not count transfer students against a school (reflecting the reality of athlete puddle-jumping for playing time in D1).

Here are the NCAA’s key findings:

The latest GSR figures show that 77 percent of student-athletes who began college from 1997-2000 graduated within six years. That four-year graduation rate is [...]