Teams With Postseason Ineligibility for 2012-13 Season

Men’s Basketball

California State University, Bakersfield*

Jacksonville State University

Mississippi Valley State University

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

Towson University

University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff

University of California, Riverside

University of Connecticut

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

University of Toledo

*Data still under review

Football

Hampton University

North Carolina A&T State University

Texas Southern University

Men’s Soccer

Central Connecticut State University

Men’s Wrestling

University of Northern Colorado

Source: NCAA

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  • June 11, 2013

    The NCAA today released its annual Academic Progress Rates report for Division I men’s and women’s programs, and heralded sizable improvements by historically black colleges to raise graduation and retention rates for its student athletes.

    But several HBCUs have accepted or are challenging NCAA sanctions, including reduced practice time and ineligibility for postseason competition.

    The hardest hit among the HBCUs programs is Alabama State University, as the Hornets are appealing postseason bans for its football, baseball, m.... In a statement, Alabama State President William Harris said that the university is committed to the academic performance of its student athletes.

    “Although we have seen improvements in all areas, we are committed to assuring that athletic programs meet or exceed the established standards. We take the development of our student-athletes very seriously and are committed to addressing every matter that is a barrier to the success of our athletic program. As such, we have made both staff and coaching changes to help to improve the academic preparedness and performance our student athletes. We have thoroughly reviewed the NCAA’s report and have submitted waivers for review of the sanctions. We are optimistic for favorable outcomes for the upcoming seasons.”

    Additional postseason ban decisions were handed out for the following MEAC and SWAC programs:

    MEAC

    Savannah State Football
    Norfolk State Indoor, Outdoor Men’s Track and Field
    Florida A&M Women’s Volleyball

    SWAC

    Grambling State Men’s Basketball
    Southern Indoor, Outdoor Men’s Track and Field
    UAPB Men’s Basketball
    Mississippi Valley State Men’s Basketball, Football, Baseball

     

  • June 11, 2013

    The NCAA continues to see positive overall trends in its Academic Progress Rate, but historically black colleges and universities continue to lag behind the rest of Division I, according to data released Tuesday by the NCAA.

     

    In fact, barring the NCAA granting a waiver request, four of the 10 men's basketball teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference — made up entirely of HBCUs — will be ineligible for the NCAA tournament in 2013-14 because of academic performance.

     

    Of the Division I teams that scored below 900 in the APR, the benchmark to be eligible for postseason play, 78% were from HBCUs. The APR is calculated on a four-year average, but a postseason ban can be avoided if the most recent two-year average is above 930.

     

    The NCAA uses the APR to measure eligibility and retention of student-athletes, which it considers a predictor of graduation rates. A score of 925 is considered equivalent to a 50% graduation rate, and achieving anything below that number is subject to penalties.

    "Obviously the performance in those teams that haven't hit the mark are something that causes everyone concern," NCAA president Mark Emmert said. "I know the presidents at those universities, most of whom I've spoken with, are deeply concerned. We're working hard with them to help improve that performance by providing support for designing programs to improve academic tutoring and support programs. We also created, with the direct support and enthusiastic advice of the (NCAA Board of Directors), a program to provide grants and financial support to those institutions so they can make investments in their academic support programs."

     

    Though the number of teams receiving APR penalties has decreased dramatically since 2006-07, when more than 100 fell into that category, the number of teams ineligible for the postseason has slightly increased. In 2011, the penalty structure was revamped to provide three different levels, including loss of practice time, loss of scholarships and even an NCAA-mandated reduction in number of games played.

     

    This year, five teams received the most severe, or Level Three, penalties: the men's basketball squads at Mississippi Valley State, Louisiana-Monroe, New Orleans and Grambling State, as well as the women's volleyball team at Chicago State.

     

    The only major conference team in any sport to receive a postseason ban for 2013-14 is the men's basketball team at Florida International, which is joining Conference USA. Other men's basketball teams ineligible for the 2013-14 NCAA tournament include Grambling State, New Orleans, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Alabama State and Mississippi Valley State. The latter three have waiver requests to reduce their penalty with a data review pending.

     

    In addition to men's basketball, three other programs at Alabama State will miss the postseason in 2013-14: volleyball, football and baseball.

    "We have and will continuously review and implement measures to provide essential academic resources for our student-athletes," interim President William H. Harris said in a written statement. "We have made both staff and coaching changes to help to improve the academic preparedness and performance our student athletes. We have thoroughly reviewed the NCAA's report and have submitted waivers for review of the sanctions. We are optimistic for favorable outcomes for the upcoming seasons."

     

    Of the 51 squads below 900 in the APR, the NCAA says just 18 will be ineligible for postseason competition this year because of waivers and other mitigating factors.

    UConn was ineligible for the men's basketball tournament in 2012-13 because of a series of poor APR scores under former head coach Jim Calhoun. Though the school is still below 900 in the four-year average, it will be eligible for the 2013-14 tournament because its two-year average is above 930.

     

    The benchmark for postseason participation is rising from 900 to 930 by 2014-15, which will put a number of major programs in jeopardy if they do not improve their scores in the next few years. Among them are the football programs at Tennessee (924), Louisville (924) and Oklahoma State (926) and the men's basketball programs at Providence (915), Texas A&M (911), Houston (908) and Oregon (918).

     

    "If you can't graduate half your student-athletes you shouldn't be worried about playing in championships or tournaments," Emmert said. "That message seems to be being received loud and clear."

     

    The overall national APR average increased by two points in men's basketball to 952 and stayed the same in football at 949. For just the 120 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the APR average was 954. Both sports are still well below the average of 974 for all sports. Women's basketball came close to the overall average at 972.

     

    Measuring the single-year APR for 2011-12 against 2007-08, which just dropped off the four-year average, men's basketball increased by 12 points and football improved its score by six points.

     

    Another key finding in the study is that transfers comprise 12.1%t of the student-athlete population in men's basketball, not including 14.9%t who transferred from junior college. That number is much lower in FBS football, where just 3.2% of the four-year students are transfers. Men's basketball is the only major sport where the proportion of four-year transfers has risen significantly since the APR was established.

     

    The NCAA notes that 5,643 former athletes in the four marquee sports (men's and women's basketball, football and baseball) have come back to college after their eligibility to earn degrees over the past nine years, which earns bonus points for APR. Just in the last year, 1,220 former athletes have taken advantage of that.

    HBCUs continue to be a source of concern, however. Though the 374 HBCUs have steadily increased their overall APR averages in the last decade, they still lag 31 APR points behind the rest of Division I in the 2011-12 measurement.

    "A lot of them have as their mission to provide college opportunities for first-generation students who come from very modest backgrounds financially, so if you are asking me do I think should I change their missions? I think not," said University of Hartford president Walt Harrison, who chairs the NCAA committee on academic performance. "There's a real place for those institutions, so I wouldn't criticize them at all for their fidelity to their mission. There's an honest commitment by all of us to provide more resources to help them achieve their mission."

     

  • All Southern University athletics programs, including the school’s first place men’s and women’s basketball teams, are currently banned from postseason play pending an NCAA investigation into the academic progress rates of student-athletes.

    The ban is effective immediately, and in order to have it lifted Southern must review and resubmit all Academic Progress Rates and Graduate Success Rates to the NCAA dating to 2009. The NCAA will then either verify the data that was previously submitted or give the university an opportunity to make corrections to that data.

  • Quite a few of our SWAC schools had issues with eligibility in recent years. We need a better plan!
  • Yes, more needs to be done for our HBCUs. A great place to start is alumni support/funding. More needs to be invested in addressing these issues at our schools on an individual basis.


    Peaches JSU said:
    Quite a few of our SWAC schools had issues with eligibility in recent years. We need a better plan!
    SWAC Schools/HBCUs That Have Had Sports Ineligibility Issues.....................
    Teams With Postseason Ineligibility for 2012-13 Season Men’s Basketball California State University, Bakersfield* Jacksonville State University Missi…
  • SWAC Lifts League's Postseason Ban

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Southwestern Athletic Conference and its Council of Presidents and Chancellors reviewed, voted, and approved to amend the SWAC bylaw that governs if an institution’s team and/or student-athletes can participate in the conference season-ending tournaments and championships.
    “Today we received the approval from the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Committees to amend our men’s and women’s basketball automatic qualification policy for the NCAA Tournament,” said SWAC Commissioner Duer Sharp.
    The adopted bylaw, which allows all 10 member institutions to participate in the SWAC Tournament, will be used to determine which SWAC member institution will receive the conference Automatic Qualification (AQ) to represent the conference in the NCAA tournaments for each respective sport. The previous policy restricted several current SWAC institutions from participating in post season play due to Academic Progress Rates (APR) restrictions.
    As it relates to the upcoming basketball tournament, the NCAA issued a statement acknowledging the acceptance of the SWAC’s proposed bylaw change by saying that the Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Committees will allow the conference to amend its automatic-qualifying policy for the 2014 championships only. The conference basketball tournament for both men and women will still determine the automatic berths into both NCAA championships. The eligible team that advances furthest in the conference tournaments will receive the automatic berth to the NCAA championships. In the event of a tie (for example, all tournament-eligible teams are eliminated in the same round), the automatic berths will go to the highest-seeded team.
    “It is the conference’s goal to ensure that each student-athlete has equal opportunity for academic and athletic success,” said Sharp. “The Conference and Council of Presidents acknowledge the financial strain that affects our member institutions in meeting APR requirements. With the approval of the amended policy, the SWAC not only can provide a quality athletic experience, but optimistically provide the means for academic advancements,” added Commissioner Sharp.
    The Council voted in favor of lifting the postseason ban, for all SWAC Championship Sports, as the old policy inhibited the current student-athletes. To some extent, postseason penalties were based on budget issues that prevent league institutions from hiring personnel to support the athletic system. “The academic success of the student-athletes is a top priority of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and its member institutions. While staying committed to improving the APR scores of our member institutions, the SWAC will continue to work with each institution and the NCAA to reach the appropriate benchmarks set by the Committee on Academic Performance,” said Sharp.
    The old policy did not allow member institutions that are not eligible for NCAA postseason to participate in SWAC season-ending tournament and championship games, but the change does allow for it. The ruling immediately allows Grambling State, Mississippi Valley State, Southern and Arkansas-Pine Bluff to compete at the end of the regular season in its respective competition, including the 2014 SWAC tournament, which will run March 11-15 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
  • I would love to see that happen! Negroes these days have their priorities screwed up. They not trying to give back!!



    Band Luv said:
    Yes, more needs to be done for our HBCUs. A great place to start is alumni support/funding. More needs to be invested in addressing these issues at our schools on an individual basis.


    Peaches JSU said:
    Quite a few of our SWAC schools had issues with eligibility in recent years. We need a better plan!
    SWAC Schools/HBCUs That Have Had Sports Ineligibility Issues.....................
    Teams With Postseason Ineligibility for 2012-13 Season Men’s Basketball California State University, Bakersfield* Jacksonville State University Missi…
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