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By Libby Nelson, Apr. 7, 2014, Vox.com
The University of Connecticut Huskies made a triumphant
return to the NCAA tournament this year — winning the national
championship Monday night — after the school was barred from
competition in 2013 for poor academic performance.
But UConn's graduation rate for male basketball players is
still the worst of any team in the 2014 tournament.
UConn graduates 8 percent
of its players, according to the most recent NCAA statistics. To put it another
way: of the 12 players who started as freshmen eight years ago, exactly one
managed to finish a college degree or leave UConn in good academic standing.
UConn's terrible graduation rate is an outlier for the
tournament
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