While college basketball fans are watching the scores on the court, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) is keeping score off the court!
TIDES, which is part of the CBA, has released a new study on the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) of the teams in the NCAA Division I Women’s and Men’s Sweet 16. This study is a follow-up report to the annual study, Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Success and Academic Progress Rates for the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s and Men’s Basketball Tournament Teams, which compares the GSR and APR for teams that were selected for the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
Richard Lapchick, Ph.D., the primary author of the study, is the director of TIDES and Chair of the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program. The study was co-authored by Sean Williams, Aaron Trigg, Michelle Milkovich, and Michael Farris.
Lapchick commented that, “There is good news regarding academic success in general for both the men’s and women’s Sweet 16 teams. The GSR and the APR rates of the teams are overwhelmingly high however the women still do better than the men. The remaining bad news is that the persistent gap between the graduation rates of white and African-American student-athletes remains too large.”
If the Sweet 16 for men’s and women’s basketball teams were seeded based on Graduation Success Rates (GSR), then the complete seeding would be:
| Men's | Women's |
| #1 Xavier University (93%) |
#1 (tie) University of Connecticut (100%) |
| #2 (tie) University of Kansas (91%) |
#1 (tie) Duke University (100%) |
| #2 (tie) Marquette University (91%) |
#1 (tie) University of Kentucky (100%) |
| #4 University of North Carolina (89%) |
#1 (tie) University of Notre Dame (100%) |
| #5 Michigan State University (82%) |
#1 (tie) Penn State University (100%) |
| #6 North Carolina State University (80%) |
#1 (tie) University of South Carolina (100%) |
| #7 Ohio University (79%) |
#1 (tie) St. John’s University (100%) |
| #8 University of Kentucky (69%) |
#1 (tie) University of Tennessee (100%) |
| #9 Ohio State University (57%) |
#9 Gonzaga University (94%) |
| #10 (tie) Baylor University (56%) |
#10 Stanford University (93%) |
| #10 (tie) University of Louisville (56%) |
#11 Baylor University (92%) |
| #10 (tie) University of Cincinnati (56%) |
#12 St. Bonaventure University (91%) |
| #13 Syracuse University (54%) |
#13 University of Maryland (81%) |
| #14 University of Wisconsin (50%) |
#14 Georgia Tech (73%) |
| #15 University of Indiana (47%) |
#15 Texas A&M University (70%) |
| #16 University of Florida (38%) |
#16 University of Kansas (63%) |
In addition, based on Academic Progress Rates (APR), the Sweet 16 seeding for men’s and women’s basketball teams would be as follows:
| Men's | Women's |
| #1 University of Kansas (1000) |
#1 (tie) Duke University (995) |
| #2 Michigan State University (995) |
#1 (tie) University of Tennessee (995) |
| #3 University of Cincinnati (992) |
#3 (tie) University of Connecticut (990) |
| #4 (tie) North Carolina State University (985) |
#3 (tie) St. Bonaventure University (990) |
| #4 (tie) University of North Carolina (985) |
#5 University of Kansas (988) |
| #6 (tie) Marquette University (980) |
#6 Penn State University (985) |
| #6 (tie) Xavier University (980) |
#7 Gonzaga University (981) |
| #8 University of Kentucky (974) |
#8 Stanford University (980) |
| #9 Baylor University (972) |
#9 University of Kentucky (976) |
| #10 University of Wisconsin (970) |
#10 University of Notre Dame (974) |
| #11 University of Louisville (965) |
#11 (tie) St. John’s University (964) |
| #12 University of Florida (964) |
#11 (tie) University of Maryland (964) |
| #13 Ohio State University (952) |
#13 University of South Carolina (962) |
| #14 Indiana University (929) |
#14 Texas A&M University (961) |
| #15 Syracuse University (928) |
#15 Baylor University (960) |
| #16 Ohio University (910) |
#16 Georgia Tech (957) |
You can read the full report on the NCAS website.