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Degrees of Basketball

By WhitesCreek
Created Mar 16 2010 - 8:16am

The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of men basketball players at Tennessee's universities is interesting to note:

Sixth seeded UT is 30% while fourth seeded Vandy graduates 85% of its players. Memphis is at 67%, UTC at 33%, and ETSU is a respectable 61%.

For the four number one seeds:

Kansas 73%
Duke 92%
Syracuse 55%
Kentucky 31%

It's amusing to look up Division 1 programs [1] to see which ones should actually be paying their athletes because they aren't going to get a college degree. (I'm talking about YOU, 8% Maryland)

While I'm at it let's put our hands together and applaud UT's Pat Summit for graduating 100% of her women. UConn also has 100%. (Finally...Something to like about Geno Auriemma)


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