The NCAA is telling Division I baseball teams to come up with a plan to improve academic performance or face a substantial cutback in games. As a group, Baseball’s graduation rates and Academic Progress scores are the third-worst, ahead of only football and men’s basketball, and the sport’s graduation rate is second-worst to men’s basketball among college sports.
Baseball teams play up to 56 games in the regular season, plus three rounds of tournament games for teams that make it to the College World Series. Football teams in Division I-A play 12 regular-season games. Basketball teams play up to 31 games over two semesters. Whose seasons are too long? Take our poll.
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