<p>[Alabama</a>, Louisville making the grade in the classroom - College Football News | FOX Sports on MSN](<a href=“http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Alabama-Louisville-making-the-grade-in-the-classroom-060513?m_n=true]Alabama”>http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Alabama-Louisville-making-the-grade-in-the-classroom-060513?m_n=true)</p>
<p>"On Wednesday, the reigning national champs in the two most visible college sports made the NCAA’s honor roll for academic success. Louisville was one of 35 men’s basketball teams to score between 978 and 1,000 on the annual Academic Progress Rate. Alabama was one of 13 Bowl Subdivision schools to make the cut…</p>
<p>The Crimson Tide are now on a list that includes Duke, Northwestern and Stanford.</p>
<p>“It’s fantastic,” Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said. “We pride ourselves on having a great program where we do a good job of personal development with our players. The thing that’s most important about what our players do while they’re at the University of Alabama is graduate from school and develop a career off the field. To see that we’re one of the however many teams in the country that have one of the highest APRs, I think that speaks volumes for the commitment that we have to academics and the standard of excellence to help our players have the best opportunity to graduate.”"</p>