BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Southern University will remain ineligible for postseason competition because of "unusable data'' from its academic progress rates, the NCAA informed the school Friday. The ruling stays a ban that was implemented in December of 2013.
Though the ban keeps Southern from taking part in NCAA postseason competition, university officials said they continue to work to have it lifted as quickly as possible.
However, as of now, Southern's men and women's basketball programs, both expected to be in the hunt for the SWAC title, cannot compete in the NCAA Tournament.
"We received notification from the NCAA Subcommittee on Data Collection that Southern will remain in the unusable data probationary ban and remains ineligible to participate in postseason competition,'' the university said in a statement. "We are currently developing our response to the NCAA notification letter. The committee possesses the authority to lift the postseason ban at any time and we are closely engaged with NCAA representatives in an attempt to have the ban lifted as quickly as possible.''
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