NCAA Academic Progress Report (APR)- and Bradley

[Da Coach]

Bradley is again very sucessful in complying with the NCAA emphasis on academics. 4 of Bradley's varsity sports were recognized by the NCAA for 2007-2008 for the NCAA's Public Recognition Awards. That is a designation for the teams that rank in the top 10% of all D1 schools fielding teams in that sport.--

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5900&ATCLID=1447218&db_oem_id=3400

If anyone thinks this is easy, here are some facts--

Here are the NCAA Public Recognition Awards for 2007-08 by school for Division I--

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/home?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/Academics+and+Athletes/Education+and+Research/Academic+Reform/APR/2007-08_public_recognition_by_school.html

Note that among MVC schools--Bradley is listed for recognition in 4 sports, and Creighton is listed for 5 sports (one of them is women's soccer- a sport Bradley doesn't have).
Drake, Evansville, Indiana State, Northern Iowa, Missouri State, and Wichita State were not cited at all for any sports!
Illinois State and Southern Illinois were the only other MVC schools cited beside BU and Creighton, despite the fact that they field many more sports teams. They were cited for just one sport each.
Note how the lists are heavily dominated by the smaller, private schools. Many large state schools are completely absent from the list, despite having many more sports teams than smaller schools do, and lots more money.

Here is the same list by sport--

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/home?SPSID=25970&SPID=1513&DB_OEM_ID=3400&WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/Academics+and+Athletes/Education+and+Research/Academic+Reform/APR/2007-08_public_recognition_by_sport.html

There were only 33 of over 330 D1 schools were cited for their men's basketball teams, and only 25 for football. University of Illinois was cited for 3 of their teams, including for men's basketball! Now I know why Coach Weber likes to have so many walkons on his teams!
Bradley was one of only 21 schools cited for men's soccer! Congratulations to all the students and the people in the Athletic department at BU for the great work! And to prove that it is no fluke, this is the second straight year Bradley has accomplished this with those 4 sports.

[tornado]

No MVC schools cited for basketball, but a whole lot of Ivy League schools were,
Brown, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton.

I note Indiana basketball missed the list, and in fact only one IU sports was cited, men's golf.
That noise you hear are the two additional scholarships that the Hoosiers are going to lose.

[mportsch]

I'm proud of both Bradley and U of I for these accomplishments. It feels good to cheer for teams that are doing things the right way.

[mportsch]

Indiana actually ranked last in the Big Ten in the latest U.S. News and World Report college rankings. The top 4 in the conference were Northwestern, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.

[Da Coach]

I agree. And it's not as if Bradley is sacrificing quality athletes just to recruit kids to bolster the teams' academic figures. The men's soccer team that was cited made it to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, and the other teams are quite competetive.

I notice that Bradley (4 teams) has as many teams on that list as Indiana (1), Purdue (1), Wisconsin (2), Kentucky (0), Tennessee (0), Missouri (0), Kansas State (0), Oklahoma (0), and Iowa State (0) combined!

[braveatheart]

Bradley is again very sucessful in complying with the NCAA emphasis on academics. 4 of Bradley's varsity sports were recognized by the NCAA for 2007-2008 for the NCAA's Public Recognition Awards. That is a designation for the teams that rank in the top 10% of all D1 schools fielding teams in that sport.--

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5900&ATCLID=1447218&db_oem_id=3400

If anyone thinks this is easy, here are some facts--

Here are the NCAA Public Recognition Awards for 2007-08 by school for Division I--

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/home?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/Academics+and+Athletes/Education+and+Research/Academic+Reform/APR/2007-08_public_recognition_by_school.html

Note that among MVC schools--Bradley is listed for recognition in 4 sports, and Creighton is listed for 5 sports (one of them is women's soccer- a sport Bradley doesn't have).
Drake, Evansville, Indiana State, Northern Iowa, Missouri State, and Wichita State were not cited at all for any sports!
Illinois State and Southern Illinois were the only other MVC schools cited beside BU and Creighton, despite the fact that they field many more sports teams. They were cited for just one sport each.
Note how the lists are heavily dominated by the smaller, private schools. Many large state schools are completely absent from the list, despite having many more sports teams than smaller schools do, and lots more money.

Here is the same list by sport--

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/home?SPSID=25970&SPID=1513&DB_OEM_ID=3400&WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/Academics+and+Athletes/Education+and+Research/Academic+Reform/APR/2007-08_public_recognition_by_sport.html

There were only 33 of over 330 D1 schools were cited for their men's basketball teams, and only 25 for football. University of Illinois was cited for 3 of their teams, including for men's basketball! Now I know why Coach Weber likes to have so many walkons on his teams!
Bradley was one of only 21 schools cited for men's soccer! Congratulations to all the students and the people in the Athletic department at BU for the great work! And to prove that it is no fluke, this is the second straight year Bradley has accomplished this with those 4 sports.

Just a correction coach. Northern Iowa is listed as the University of Northern Iowa and they have four of their teams on the list.

[Da Coach]

Oops, sorry for that error. Nice going UNI. That's more sports than Iowa, and Iowa State combined.

[Braves4Life]

I would really have liked to see Bradley basketball on this list (as it's our marquee sport). If Duke, Illinois, Kansas, Carolina, and Wake Forest are on this list then I think BU should be able to qualify as well. Better yet, I'd really like to know how most of those schools did it since they aren't exactly recruiting rocket scientists (Duke would be the exception as they truly recruit quality student-athletes).

[tornado]

Here's the kind of thing that'll hurt academic progress, and DePaul already has concerns.

Senior Draelon Burns...
"DePaul guard Draelon Burns was the fifth-best scorer in the Big East and averaged 17.6 points per game. Those statistics have done little to raise his NBA draft profile.
Burns is not listed on major mock drafts, was not invited to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament to showcase his skills and is awaiting word on whether he will be invited to the Orlando pre-draft camp. But he has not stopped pursuing his dream of playing pro basketball."

so his chances of playing in the NBA are slim, but he should have a decent chance of playing in Europe, and that chance wouldn't really be different if he just finished school and graduated.
But....note this.........

"Burns stopped attending classes as a senior
after the basketball season ended to focus on his basketball future"

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/depaul/cs-080417-depaul-draelon-burns-nba,1,5420101.story

This will hurt their APR

[MacabreMob]

"Burns stopped attending classes as a senior
after the basketball season ended to focus on his basketball future"

LOL!

[tornado]

Purdue also appears to have some academic problems and may lose scholarships

http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080502/NEWS09/80502024

The NCAA's official release comes out on Tuesday