David Glenn did a little reading and put together a couple of table showing how each of the major men’s ACC programs fared in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates (APR) report. As Glenn reports, these numbers came out in February, but no one seemed to write much about them. I remember looking for the full charts when they came out, but couldn’t find them (after a rigorous minute with Google, I’m sure) and forgot.
A few observations about the charts:
The basketball list looks surprisingly like recent standings, with UNC, Duke and Wake at the top and Clemson at the bottom.
Duke and Wake ranked in the top three in the ACC in both basketball and football.
FSU shocked me by coming in fourth in both sports. Fourth! If it were arrest rates, I would have expected the Noles to shine, but I didn’t think I’d see them near the top of an academic ranking. Good for them.
It appears that NC State’s excuse that they struggle because they have so much more emphasis on academics than their rivals doesn’t really hold up here (or elsewhere, really). The Pack was 10th in hoops and dead last in football.