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Graduation rates rise slightly in NCAA football, baseball, basketball

Associated Press

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS -- Ever so slightly, graduation rates for men's Division I basketball, baseball and football players are continuing to rise. The NCAA released figures Wednesday tracking the graduation rates at 318 Division I colleges and universities for athletes who enrolled from 1997-2000. The overall rate for men and women in all sports remained at 77 percent, but the individual rates for the three poorest-performing groups of athletes -- men's basketball, football and baseball -- show ...

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