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Men's basketball one of 10 UA sports with perfect APR results

The Arizona men's basketball program in Arizona achieved a perfect NCAA academic progress rate for the third season in a row in 2023-24, while nine other UA sports also achieved the top points of 1,000.

The NCAA, which updated its annual metric for academic progress and binding on Tuesday, gave basketball, the Cross Country for men, women and football for a four -year APR -average in the top 10% of their sports.

The NCAA Bases Awards and penalties for the multi-year APR value and the four-year installment of the UA-Männer-Basketball team from 994 among the BIG 12 schools. The wildcats were perfect under the coach of the fourth year, Tommy Lloyd, except in his first season 2021-22, when the wildcats scored a 979 point number.

Only the stable men's basketball programs in Houston (1,000) and Colorado (995) recorded higher APR values ​​with several years than Arizona among the Big 12 teams.

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The head coach of Arizona, Tommy Lloyd, goes to the crowd behind the wildcat bank when he left the place in the second half of her 32nd round in the men's NCAA tournament on March 23, 2025 with an 87: 83 win against Oregon.


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In the meantime, the Arizona Women's Cross Country program was one of seven big 12 programs in this sport to achieve a perfect score of 1,000 more years. In soccer, among other things, Texas Tech and Utah all had a perfect multi-year values ​​among big 12 schools.

Among the multi-year tariffs in BIG 12 programs, the UA soccer team took the 12th place with a 969, while the basketball of women took eighth place with 989.

In 2023-24, the other sports attempts in Arizona, the perfect 1,000 APR values ​​for men swim and dive, as well as eight women's sports: cross country, golf, gymnastics, softball, football, beach volleyball, tennis and triathlon.

All UA sports have conveniently recorded several years of prices over 930, whereby the minimum number of points was necessary to avoid punishments and to be considered for the competition after the season.

According to the Arizona, five of his programs set up or coordinated their program record for several years of APR values, including football, football, women's athletics, women's cross country and triathlon. The 994-point number of men's basketball has been the highest multi-year APR since 2015, while gymnastics (995), softball (996), men's tennis (993) and women's tennis (992) achieved their second best results in the program history.

In contrast to the final rates, the APR reviews of the NCAA are relatively real-time measurements of storage and academic authorization within a program. As a rule, each player offers four options per year, one of the storage and one in the authorization for each semester, and the percentage of success is multiplied by 1,000 to achieve the score.

For example, basketball teams with 12 or 13 scholarship players would achieve about 980 with a “Miss” of an academic inadmissibility or storage during an academic year with two semesters. In 2021-22, when the basketball program of the UA men scored a score of 979, three players dropped early for the NBA, while two were delivered, so that a departing player probably had an academic demonstration.

However, there are a number of ways of how points can be restored – and there is no punishment for players who leave early and sign pro contracts, but are authorized to academic. There are also no penalties for players who transmit, but record a grade average of around 2.0 or better.

Transfers used to need a 2.6 GPA to avoid their earlier programs, but the NCAA changed 2021-22 to a less Firmal requirement, so that the broadcasts can earn APR points for their previous programs as long as they “meet requirements for department I-Praise-Tau-degree department if they change schools”.

NCAA APR values ​​for 2023-24

Contact the sports reporter Bruce Pascoe at bpascoe@tucson.com. On X (Twitter): @Bracepascoke

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