May 15, 2009

After Years of Scrutiny, Hundreds of Teams Still Fail to Make the NCAA's Grade

By LIBBY SANDER

Despite years of prodding from officials at the National Collegiate Athletic Association to bolster athletes' performance in the classroom, nearly 10 percent of all athletics teams in the NCAA's top division failed to meet the association's annual benchmark for academic progress, new data show.

Of the 6,300 or so teams in Division I, the NCAA's most competitive grouping, nearly 600 scored below the number the association has set as the cutoff point between teams whose athletes are

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