Grad rates for men’s basketball at bottom of SEC (w/document)
November 19, 2009 by RYNE DENNIS
Filed under Sports
For the third consecutive year, the men’s basketball team was at the bottom of the SEC when it comes to graduation success rates.
According to the NCAA report released Wednesday, for freshmen who entered between 1999-2002, Georgia had only 18 percent of its men’s basketball team graduate in the six years since they entered the University – a number that is 11 percent lower than the next lowest, LSU. The number also represents a 5 percent drop in graduation success rate from last year’s 1998-2001 report.
The 2002 season marked the last season that former coach Jim Harrick recruited players for the men’s basketball team.
The football team was slightly up from the past two seasons in the report, as it jumped from last of 12 teams to the No. 8 spot in the SEC, graduating 57 percent of its student-athletes – an increase from 48 percent from last year’s report.
The top programs at the University were men’s swimming, women’s tennis and gymnastics at 100 percent, followed by volleyball at 92 percent.
