BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- All Southern University athletics programs, including the school’s first place men’s and women’s basketball teams, are currently banned from postseason play pending an NCAA investigation into the academic progress rates of student-athletes.The ban is effective immediately, and in order to have it lifted Southern must review and resubmit all Academic Progress Rates and Graduate Success Rates to the NCAA dating to 2009. The NCAA will then either verify the data that was previously submitted or give the university an opportunity to make corrections to that data.
“Once the data is submitted and corrected, a meeting will be called with the NCAA Subcommittee on Academic Performance,” athletic director William Broussard said Thursday afternoon. “They will then confirm that all the data has been entered correctly. As soon as we receive that ruling, we’ll have that ban immediately lifted.”
Broussard said the university has been meeting deadlines for submitting increments of data since the first week of December, and hopes to get a response from the NCAA about how much more is needed on Monday.
CONTINUE READING
No comments:
Post a Comment