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Wow, sports fans are a jaded bunch. A recent poll asked whether or not fans believed that college sports programs regularly broke NCAA rules when recruiting or training athletes, and these were the results.
Are you ready for March Madness in Columbus? Our special section on the NCAA tournament debuted today, and it includes everything you need to know to prepare your bracket, keep up with the Buckeyes and the rest of NCAA basketball, and gear up for games to be played here at Nationwide Arena Friday and Sunday.
Today, the results of an 11-month Yahoo! Sports investigation are out. And they’re wild.
“I can’t wait to play in New York. Watching the movie ‘He Got Game’ got me really excited about playing there.” - Ricardo Gathers, the No. 43 overall player in the ESPNU 100, committed to coach Steve Lavin and St. John’s over LSU, Syracuse, Texas and Arizona on Saturday.
Maurice Harkless has been cleared by the NCAA and will suit up for St. John’s as a freshman in 2011-12.
Harkless is considered the jewel of head coach Steve Lavin’s nine-man recruiting class for 2011.
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Last week we predicted Butler University would win the tournament, on the basis of our academic performance bracket. The team has a perfect 1000 academic progress rate, which is a measure of the team’s performance in keeping athletes in good academic standing and on track for graduation, calculated by the NCAA. (If athletes leave, say for the NBA, it doesn’t hurt the school’s score as long as they’re in good standing when they leave.) The NCAA takes the APR score seriously enough that if a team maintains an average below 925 — the score that corresponds to roughly a 50 percent graduation rate — over several years it faces sanctions like reductions in playing time and losing scholarship slots.
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The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team, on the other hand, has an academic progress rate of just 930. While Connecticut has managed to squeak by with a barely sufficient multiyear average, that number masks the team’s score for just 2008-2009: an abysmal 844.
The other two Final Four teams, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Kentucky, have middling APRs of 975 and 954. The tournament average overall is 957.
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9 P.M. (PBS) Frontline: “Money and March Madness”
“Money and March Madness,” an inside look at the multi-billion dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports. In this investigation, correspondent Lowell Bergman gains access to Sonny Vaccaro, a former marketing executive at Nike, Adidas, and Reebok who helped bring about the rapid commercialization of college basketball. Vaccaro’s success made coaches, administrators, and companies rich. But the players remain at the mercy of the NCAA, which, despite a new $10.8 billion contract for its basketball tournament, has continued to insist that the athletes don’t get paid. Now, Vaccaro has left the business world and he’s spearheading a class-action lawsuit that aims to ensure that players get a piece of the action.
Q: Steve, as a West Coast guy how do you characterize New York after a year?
St. John’s Coach Steve Lavin: It’s intoxicating because of the energy, the people, the culture. The diversity is such that when you get up in the morning and you hit the pavement there’s this kinda rush, vital signs go north in a hurry. And I find that part exhilarating. It’s got so much vitality. And then in terms of the love of basketball in New York, it’s at such a high point that if your a coach it’s a good fit.
After suffering a pair of difficult losses in this weekend’s Big East Tournament—a 79-73 defeat to Syracuse, and senior D.J. Kennedy to a season-ending knee injury—St. John’s prospects in the NCAA tournament are … mixed. The team is still good enough to make a run deep into the tournament, even without Kennedy, but their most significant challenge could be their first-round game.
SI’s March Madness preview cover features UCONN guard Kemba Walker.
Do It For D.J.
St. John’s held a pep rally on campus Monday. The team and Coach Lavin spoke about losing D.J. Kennedy, who is out with a torn ACL, and how they’ve dedicated their NCAA appearance to him.
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