March 29, 2002

The 'U.S. News' College-Sports Rankings: A Primer for Those Overlooked

To all the athletics directors whose departments didn't make the top of U.S. News & World Report's recent college-sports rankings: Here's how to explain to your president why he/she shouldn't be mad.

Suggestion No. 1: You had a bit of trouble with National Collegiate Athletic Association rules violations that has since been corrected. Bucknell University, for example, ended up on the magazine's list of the worst rule breakers because of a 1999 case in which high-school wrestlers

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