Photo: Hampton University head basketball coach Kevin Nickelberry interviewed last month for the University of Massachusetts head coaching vacancy. It's any body guess how long Coach Nickelberry stays committed to HU.NCAA academic progress reports tell a good-news, bad-news story for Hampton University
Hampton University will lose athletic scholarships for the third consecutive year for failing to meet NCAA academic progress requirements. Hampton's men's basketball and men's indoor track teams lose one scholarship each, according to Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released Tuesday.
But Hampton's APR performance was better than the previous two years, and the news also is good for most other area and state programs. Hampton loses one of its 13 men's basketball scholarships because its four-year APR average is well below the benchmark of 925. An APR of 925 projects to about a 60-percent graduation success rate, a number the NCAA requires to avoid penalties.
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