Dispatch
Men's basketball has APR work to do
All other sports except rifle above NCAA's cutoff score
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:35 AM
By
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The bad news for the Ohio State men's basketball program is that its Academic Progress Rate remains well below the 925 threshold deemed acceptable by the NCAA. Two years ago, the program's four-year average score was 911. This year, it's 909.
The good news is, it should be trending upward soon. For the 2006-07 school year, the program's score was 932, the highest it has been since the NCAA introduced the APR four years ago.
"We have some challenges with basketball. We think we have a great plan in place, (and) we're moving in the right direction," John Bruno, the university's faculty athletics representative, said yesterday after the NCAA released its latest APR data.
A program's APR score is an average of its scores for the past four years, in this case through the 2006-07 school year. Men's basketball and rifle were the only Ohio State sports to score below 925, which the NCAA equates to a 60 percent graduation rate.
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