Just 10 percent of Ohio State’s basketball players received degrees at the school, according to a study that examined the freshman classes entering from 1996-99. Taking into account players who transfer, enter from junior colleges and are graduated late, 38 percent of Buckeyes basketball players earned degrees during that period, Richard Lapchick, director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, said Monday. Ohio State enters this year’s NCAA tournament as the nation’s top-ranked team. “The supposed Final Four, the top seeds are a real disparity there. Two of the schools, Florida and North Carolina, have really good graduation rates and Kansas and Ohio State don’t have such good graduation rates,” Lapchick said. “That’s certainly an issue.”
Under the formula of Federal Graduation Rates, no basketball player from NCAA-bound Florida A&M, Eastern Kentucky or Oregon received a degree from those four freshman classes, Lapchick’s study said.
March 12, 2007...6:32 pm
Ohio State basketball players win games; but degrees? well, not so much…
Jump to Comments
