NORFOLK, Virginia -- Norfolk State's men's indoor and outdoor track teams, which have dominated the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in recent years, will be ineligible for the 2013-14 postseason after findings revealed in the NCAA's annual academic progress report released Tuesday.The volleyball and women's indoor and outdoor track teams were hit with four-hour reductions in weekly practice time in light of the report, which identifies and penalizes academically lagging programs.
The postseason bans are the first for any NSU teams, athletic director Marty Miller said. They did not follow a warning or a lesser penalty from the NCAA, something Miller said he found "very puzzling."
"The thing about it that's so disappointing about the track program is that this is not typical for our programs," he said, asserting that the school fared well overall in the report. "We have not ever been in this situation before."
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