Local NCAA Tournament Schools Graduation Rates

Richard Lapchick is back again with his annual downer before the college basketball tournament extravaganza...the NCAA Tournament teams graduation success rate. Lets take a look at the local teams:

Virginia: 85% of all Men's bball players graduated
Virginia Tech: 71%
VCU: 70%
George Washington: 70%
Georgetown: 64%
Old Dominion: 50%
Maryland: 18% OUCH...wait, WHAT?? 18%????

It appears as if our riotous neighbors in College Park have a bit of a problem graduating their players. Maybe they should stop burning books and start reading them? Maryland would have a 13% success rate if you weren't including players who transferred to other schools and received degrees, entered from junior colleges and/or who got a degree more than six years after enrolling at UMD. Just so you know how they got to these numbers, "[t]he Institute reviewed 1999 – 00 graduation (six-year) rates, with a four class average (freshman classes of 1996 – 97, 1997 – 98, 1998 – 99, and 1999 – 00)."

Gary, how about teaching a little bit more than just X's and O's to your kids huh? Perhaps they could learn important things that books tell you, like where Canada is and most importantly DO NOT go shooting guns around the White House!

Link: Actual PDF of all Schools in the NCAA Tournament and their graduation Rates