But not all was rosy, even within the NCAA's own report, which showed some regression in the one-year statistics.
• After making a 6-percentage point jump to 74 in last year's report, all men's basketball players in the one-year measure slipped to 72.9 percent this year. It's still the first time Division I college basketball players have had to back-to-back years at 70 percent or better.
• And according to the four-year federal numbers, only 47 percent of men's basketball players and 58 percent of FBS football players graduated. Football Championship Subdivision players came in at 56 percent. Of the 35 sports that were measured, only three others -- baseball (48 percent), women's bowling (53 percent) and wrestling (56) -- had grad rates lower than 60 percent.
Women's bowling????????? Must be a SWAC thing.
Also, baseball????? Fucking baseball is little more than badminton or croquet. WTF is so rigorous about that that they can't graduate at a higher rate?
It actually is a very big HBCU thing... and Nebraska.