NCAA Considers Ideas to Improve Athletes' Academic Performance

Panel studying basketball may seek ban on varsity play for freshmen

With graduation rates of college athletes on the decline, keeping them in class and in school is one of the most difficult challenges that athletics directors face.

It's especially tough with male basketball players, who graduate at lower rates than athletes in any other sport. In 1997, only 41 per cent of them finished college in six

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