Academic Success Predicts NCAA Hoop Winner?

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<p>Unlike my own Final Four prognostication tools (e.g., appealing mascots or colors and an assortment of sentimental reasons), Inside Higher Ed bases hoop success on academic success. Each year, pundits at the publication create an "Academic Performance Tournament" (determined by each team's Academic Progress Rate), whose winners seem to closely mirror the NCAA Men's Div. 1 basketball champions </p>

<p>For a look at Inside Higher Ed's 2013 brackets, see Academic</a> Performance Tournament bracket: March Madness for the higher ed crowd | Inside Higher Ed </p>

<p>Can Belmont U. (with a 100% graduation success rate) really go all the way?</p>

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<p>What a neat way to look at the brackets. As a KU alum, I’ve known for a while that Kansas graduates its players, and I knew that Duke and UNC did as well. All three have great college basketball programs, although even Roy Williams said that KU has better fans. </p>

<p>Since this is CC, I will say that KU’s educational program is excellent and highly under-rated. Because it must, by law, admit any Kansas high school graduate that chooses to attend, it does poorly on all the selectivity criteria that is used to rank colleges. I found the teaching at KU equal to the teaching during my master’s program at MIT.</p>

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<p>Bucknell #1</p>