(04-14-2016 06:36 AM)TerryD Wrote: ND receives 16 NCAA APR Public Recognition Awards:
"The University of Notre Dame received 16 NCAA Academic Progress Rate public recognition awards as the NCAA today honored Division I sports teams for their latest multi-year APR scores.
Notre Dame ranked among the top two NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision institutions for the eighth consecutive year with its 16 public recognition awards. The Irish have finished first in number of awards received in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 and second in 2010, 2015 and 2016.
The NCAA announcement is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports.
The 16 recognized Irish teams posted multi-year APR scores in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. In the 10th year the NCAA has presented these honors, the latest awards are based on APR numbers that represent the combination of scores from the 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.
Here are the 16 Notre Dame programs honored this year for multi-year achievement:
Men's Sports (7): cross country, fencing, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, track and field.
Women's Sports (9): basketball, cross country, fencing, lacrosse, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball.
Here are the FBS institutions that ranked in the top 10 in 2016, in terms of programs honored:
1. Stanford (17)
2. Notre Dame (16)
3. Duke (15)
4. Minnesota (14)
5. (tie) Boston College, Northwestern (12)
7. (tie) Michigan, Rice (10)
9. Virginia (8)
10. (tie) Navy, North Carolina, Tulane (7 each)
Notre Dame's second-place finish in 2016 in terms of sports honored comes after the Irish produced the largest number of honored programs in four of the previous five years. The 16 Notre Dame programs honored rank one behind the highest figure for recognized Irish sports, matching the 17 received in 2011, 2012 and 2015."
http://www.und.com/genrel/041316aab.html
Now, Terry, you know that to be fair we must sort this on a proportional basis...
Owls Top FBS in NCAA Graduation Rate Success Honors
April 13, 2016
By Chuck Pool (cpool@rice.edu)
Ten of Rice’s 14 intercollegiate sports teams have been honored by the NCAA with 2016 Public Recognition Awards, which are presented annually to those teams who rank in the top 10% of the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) rankings. The latest award winners were announced by the NCAA on Wednesday.
The Owls lead all Football Bowl Subdivision teams by having 71.4% of their teams honored by the NCAA, followed by Northwestern (12/18, 66.7%) and Notre Dame (16/26, 66.7%) and dominated in the state of Texas as well as in Conference USA. (see chart on the right)
The 1,071 teams publicly recognized for high achievement include 649 women’s teams and 422 men’s or mixed squads.
This year, schools combined the indoor and outdoor track and field teams into one team score, which slightly reduced the overall number of teams earning Public Recognition Awards.
Rice teams receiving public recognition awards from the NCAA include women's basketball, women's cross country, men’s cross country, men's golf, women's soccer, women's tennis, men’s tennis, women’s track, men’s track and volleyball.
The women's cross country team is one of 110 teams competing in the NCAA to be honored in each of the 11 years of the program.
Each year the NCAA honors selected Division I sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest multiyear NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR). This announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.
The scores required to be in the top 10 ranged from 983 to a perfect 1,000, depending on the sport. Earning a perfect APR score were 944 teams.
A total of 290 schools placed at least one team on the top APR list.
All Division I teams’ APR scores will be released April 20. All teams must meet a certain academic threshold to qualify for the postseason and can face penalties for continued low academic performance.
The APR measures eligibility, graduation and retention each term and provides a clear picture of the academic performance for each team in every sport.
The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2011-2012, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.
The Academic Progress Rate (APR) was introduced in 2005 as a more real-time assessment of teams' academic performance than the prior six-year graduation-rate calculation provided. The APR awards two points per semester to student-athletes who meet academic eligibility standards and remain enrolled at an institution. A team's APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible. Teams that finished in the top 10 percent of the rankings for their respective sport receive public recognition awards.
2016 NCAA Public Recognition Awards
School (Awards/Sports) Pct.
Bowl Subdivision Top 10
Rice (10/14) 71.4%
Northwestern (12/18) 66.7%
Notre Dame (16/24) 66.7%
Duke (15/24) 62.5%
Minnesota (14/23) 60.8%
Stanford (17/29) 58.6%
Tulane (7/14) 50.0%
Boston College (12/25) 48.0%
Vanderbilt (6/15) 40.0%
Michigan (10/27) 37.0%
http://www.riceowls.com/genrel/041316aaj.html