INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA's new academic requirements could give new meaning to the madness of March.
A record 10 men's basketball teams, including three-time national champion Connecticut, will be banned from next season's NCAA tournament because of subpar work in the classroom. UConn becomes the first school from a "big six" conference to face a postseason ban in either of the two most prominent college sports based solely on the annual Academic Progress Rate scores, which the NCAA released Wednesday.
2012-13 Postseason Bans for APR
Men's Basketball
• Arkansas-Pine Bluff
• Cal State Bakersfield*
• California-Riverside
• Connecticut
• Jacksonville State
• Mississippi Valley State
• North Carolina-Wilmington
• Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
• Toledo
• Towson
Football
• Hampton
• North Carolina A&T
• Texas Southern
Men's Soccer
• Central Connecticut State
Men's Wrestling
• Northern Colorado
* - Data still under review
Each of the schools fell below the mandated cutline of 900 on their four-year scores. The APR measures the classroom performance of every Division I team. This year's data calculates rates from 2007-08 through 2010-11.
Joining the Huskies on the sideline next March will be Arkansas-Pine Bluff, California-Riverside, Cal State Bakersfield, Jacksonville State, Mississippi Valley State, North Carolina-Wilmington, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Toledo and Towson.
Cal State Bakersfield, which became a full-fledged Division I member in 2010-11 and does not yet have a conference affiliation in basketball, could be removed from the banned list because some of its data is still being evaluated.
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