’Nova Goes Deepest in Smart Kids Bracket
Here’s an interesting little twist on NCAA from the fine folks at Inside Higher Ed. The site takes the field of 64 and does its own mock tournament based on the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate, which is apparently a new tool used to show “real-time performance of teams and colleges” that “gives teams points for the extent to which their athletes stay in good academic standing and remain enrolled from term to term.” Each school’s Graduation Success Rate is used as a tiebreaker.
Villanova went to the Elite 8 before getting bounced by eventual national champion, the calculator-toting juggernaut that is Davidson. St. Joe’s got past the first round, but got quickly bounced by Boise State’s farm-raised bookworms.
Then there’s Temple, which failed to make it out of the first round against the cerebral-monsters at Michigan State. We have a feeling Fran Dunphy’s team will make it a little deeper next time around.
A bracket not to bet on [Inside Higher Ed] [via IvyGate]
