HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The national champion Connecticut men’s basketball program will lose two scholarships for the upcoming season as a result of a poor Academic Performance Rating from the NCAA.
The APR measures the classroom performance of every Division I student-athlete, composing a score for each team.
The national Academic Performance Rating is due out next week, but a link to an internal copy of the report ended up Friday on a UConn chat board. A university official with knowledge of the situation confirmed the numbers in the report, and said the school had been given the link to prepare for next week’s release.
The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the report is not scheduled to be made public until Tuesday.
The rating puts the basketball program’s four-year rating at 893, below the NCAA minimum score of 925.
