Knight Commission Study Finds Nearly Two-thirds of Men’s Basketball Tournament Field Fails Recommended Academic Standard Incentive
MIAMI, Fla. — One of the central recommendations of A Call to Action, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics’ 2001 report, was that eligibility for postseason participation should be reserved by 2007 for basketball teams that graduate 50 percent of their players. If that recommendation were in effect today, nearly two-thirds (42 of 65)…