Swish Appeal - The Top 100 Programs in Division I women's college basketball (2012 edition)Basketball is basketball.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/49391/swish-fave.png2012-11-21T08:00:04-05:00http://www.swishappeal.com/rss/stream/33437812012-11-21T08:00:04-05:002012-11-21T08:00:04-05:00Where does women's college hoops outdraw the men?
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<p>The common misperception is that no women's college basketball program could ever match the attendance of the men's program. But there are eight Division I programs that do. Do you know which ones they are?</p> <p>Given statements made by sports pundits, you'd think that women's basketball was the most exclusive club in the world - because no one goes there. I've read statements on message boards where women's basketball is supposedly a sport that only exists due to political correctness and which has no popular support.<br><br>I decided to look at the statistics for the answer. Granted, you have to take any attendance stats with a bit of salt. Attendance stats depend on who is doing the counting. <br><br>The average men's college basketball attendance for home games in NCAA Division I is 4,994. The average women's basketball attendance for home games is 1,583. Dividing the first number by the second gives a factor of 3.15, which is by how much the average men's home game outdraws the women's home game - for every women's fan, there are three men's fans.<br><br>But where are the extremes at? What about individual programs? Are there college basketball programs where the women actually outdraw the men? My initial answer was "no". If such programs existed, I figured that those programs would have to be very small, with bad programs for both genders where the women outdrawing the men is a statistical fluke caused by small attendance overall.<br><br>So color me pleasantly surprised.</p>
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<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
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<td class="xl64" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 93pt;" height="20" width="124"><b>Team</b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 64pt;" width="85"><b>Men</b></td>
<td class="xl66" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>Ratio</b></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Delaware</td>
<td align="right">2494</td>
<td align="right">3907</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.64</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Marist</td>
<td align="right">1313</td>
<td align="right">1956</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.67</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tenn-Martin</td>
<td align="right">1453</td>
<td align="right">2093</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.69</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Fla Gulf Coast</td>
<td align="right">1775</td>
<td align="right">2185</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.81</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">McNeese St.</td>
<td align="right">1183</td>
<td align="right">1296</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.91</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Baylor</td>
<td align="right">7914</td>
<td align="right">8563</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.92</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Notre Dame</td>
<td align="right">7999</td>
<td align="right">8571</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.93</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Central Arkansas</td>
<td align="right">1429</td>
<td align="right">1469</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">0.97</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Louisiana Tech</td>
<td align="right">3165</td>
<td align="right">3161</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">1.00</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Toledo</td>
<td align="right">3770</td>
<td align="right">3748</td>
<td class="xl63" align="right">1.01</td>
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<p><br><br>Not only are these not the kind of programs that have three-digit attendance, but two of the programs are from power major conferences - Baylor and Notre Dame have women's programs that outdraw the men. That can't be overemphasized (or if it can, it can be used in an argument). Last season, there were eight programs where women's average attendance at home games was greater than the men's attendance.<br><br>Of course, there are schools at the bad end of this graph - schools where the men's team far outdraws the women's team:</p>
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<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
<col style="width: 48pt;" span="2" width="64">
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<td class="xl67" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 93pt;" height="20" width="124"><b>Team</b></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 64pt;" width="85"><b>Men</b></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>Ratio</b></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Syracuse</td>
<td align="right">23618</td>
<td align="right">1065</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">22.18</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Saint Louis</td>
<td align="right">7757</td>
<td align="right">356</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">21.79</td>
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<td class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><b>Providence</b></td>
<td align="right">7883</td>
<td align="right">375</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">21.02</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">San Diego St.</td>
<td align="right">12096</td>
<td align="right">619</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">19.54</td>
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<td class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><b>Creighton</b></td>
<td align="right">16665</td>
<td align="right">892</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">18.68</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">VA Commonwealth</td>
<td align="right">7622</td>
<td align="right">486</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">15.68</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Illinois</td>
<td align="right">14986</td>
<td align="right">1070</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">14.01</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Denver</td>
<td align="right">5460</td>
<td align="right">419</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">13.03</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Utah St.</td>
<td align="right">8406</td>
<td align="right">647</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">12.99</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Brigham Young</td>
<td align="right">15424</td>
<td align="right">1206</td>
<td class="xl66" align="right">12.79</td>
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<p><br><br>Granted there are schools in power conferences that segregate the women's program to some "intimate" gymnasium with reduced seating capacity. But of the bottom ten programs on the list, there are only two - Providence and Creighton - that make use of alternate facilities for women's basketball. Whether the problem is cultural or institutional (or both), women's basketball definitely takes second place at these schools.<br><br>I will definitely be keeping track of these numbers over time, to see who moves up and down the list. What follows is the complete comparison list. (Note that both VMI and The Citadel do not have women's basketball programs.)</p>
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<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 4022; width: 83pt;" width="110">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 4425; width: 91pt;" width="121">
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<td class="xl68" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 98pt;" height="20" width="131"><b>Team</b></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 83pt;" width="110"><b>2011-12 Men</b></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 91pt;" width="121"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2011-12 Women<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 61pt;" width="81"><b>Ratio</b></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">VMI</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,962</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.00</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Citadel</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,840</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.00</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Delaware</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,494</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,907</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.64</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Marist</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,313</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,956</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.67</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tenn-Martin</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,453</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,093</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.69</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Fla Gulf Coast</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,775</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,185</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">McNeese St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,183</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,296</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.91</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Baylor</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,914</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,563</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.92</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Notre Dame</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,999</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,571</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.93</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Central Arkansas</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,429</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,469</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">0.97</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Louisiana Tech</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,165</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,161</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.00</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Toledo</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,770</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,748</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.01</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Hartford</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,294</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,279</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.01</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Maine</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,284</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,245</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.03</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">North Florida</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,267</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,180</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.07</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Canisius</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,199</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,089</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.10</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas A&M</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,383</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,555</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.13</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wisc. Green Bay</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,064</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,712</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.13</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Gonzaga</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,212</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,443</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.14</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tennessee</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16,543</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14,414</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.15</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Stanford</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,891</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,250</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.15</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Colgate</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>545</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>444</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.23</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">AR Little Rock</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,222</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,617</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.23</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Oklahoma</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,525</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,851</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Binghamton</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,781</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,195</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.27</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">North Dakota</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,045</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,608</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.27</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">E. Tennessee St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,357</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,621</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.28</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Alcorn St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>794</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>617</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.29</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas Tech</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,665</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,693</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.29</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Dartmouth</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,064</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>816</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.30</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">MD Eastern Shore</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,453</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,869</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.31</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South Dakota</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,701</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,290</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.32</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Iowa St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,015</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9,805</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.33</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Bowling Green</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,157</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,615</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Hampton</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,021</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,243</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.35</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Army</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,060</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>783</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.35</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Cent. Michigan</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,362</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,002</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.36</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Francis (PA)</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>906</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>660</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.37</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Connecticut</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12,640</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9,168</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">MD Baltimore Cty.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,476</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,069</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South Dakota St</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,320</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,403</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Montana</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,005</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,896</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tennessee Tech</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,006</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,449</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Eastern Illinois</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,327</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>958</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.39</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Navy</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,453</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,742</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.41</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Stetson</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,362</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>952</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.43</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Portland St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>824</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>575</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.43</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.J.I.T.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>461</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>320</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.44</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Sacred Heart</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>729</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>506</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.44</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">James Madison</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,452</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,365</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Florida A&M</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,129</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>769</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Grambling St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,632</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,108</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Middle Tenn. St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,329</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,585</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.49</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South Alabama</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,356</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,581</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.49</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas Pan Amer.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>611</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>410</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.49</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Miss. Valley St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,940</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,574</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.53</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wyoming</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,955</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,235</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.53</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Georgia Southern</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,918</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,249</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.54</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South Carolina-Upstate</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>695</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>447</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.55</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Prairie View A&M</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,422</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,556</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.56</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Penn St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,937</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,442</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.56</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Chattanooga</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,953</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,883</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.57</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">S. Carolina St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>891</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>566</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.57</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Charleston S.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>850</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>537</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.58</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Bethune-Cookman</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>801</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>498</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.61</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Samford</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,021</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>621</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.64</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">TCU</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,581</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,780</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.65</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Lipscomb</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,343</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,399</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.67</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,020</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,193</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.69</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Lehigh</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,332</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>786</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.69</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">TX San Antonio</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,530</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>902</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.70</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Fairleigh Dickinson</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>853</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>502</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.70</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Stephen F. Austin</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,873</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,098</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.71</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Purdue</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,324</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,805</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.71</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">SIU-Edwardsville</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,625</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>949</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.71</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Bryant</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>744</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>434</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.71</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.C. Central</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,260</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>733</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.72</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Brown</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,007</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>583</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.73</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">SE Louisiana</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>792</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>457</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.73</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Duke</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9,314</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,361</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.74</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northern Illinois</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>996</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>565</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.76</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Howard</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>934</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>522</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.79</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Coastal Carolina</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,021</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>565</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Presbyterian</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>988</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>543</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.82</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Sam Houston St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,072</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>588</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.82</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Georgia</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,079</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,848</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.84</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Indiana St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,433</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,930</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.85</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">AR Pine Bluff</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,230</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,739</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.86</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Southern U.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,334</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>716</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.86</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Idaho St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,255</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,208</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.87</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Sacramento St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>648</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>341</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.90</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Drake</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,965</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,061</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.92</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Mercer</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,366</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,229</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.93</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Jackson St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,165</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>601</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.94</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Arkansas St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,815</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,447</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.95</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Peter's</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>798</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>410</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.95</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Drexel</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,185</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,111</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.97</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Michigan St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14,797</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,505</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.97</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Alabama A&M</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,779</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>894</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">1.99</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Alabama St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,902</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>951</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.00</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">LSU</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,661</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,315</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.01</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Louisville</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>21,503</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10,670</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.02</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Nebraska</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10,019</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,957</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.02</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Fresno St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,521</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,188</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.05</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">New Hampshire</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>819</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>400</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.05</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northern Colorado</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,592</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>769</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.07</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas Southern</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,241</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>599</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.07</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Montana St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,922</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,408</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.08</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas A&M C.C.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,442</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>694</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.08</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Delaware St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>894</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>425</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Morehead St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,241</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,062</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.11</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Campbell</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,946</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>913</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.13</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">New Mexico</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14,454</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,763</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">East. Michigan</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,200</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>561</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">San Jose St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,655</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>770</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.15</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UC Davis</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,736</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>807</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.15</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Rutgers</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,362</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,476</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.17</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Boston U.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>981</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>451</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.18</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Chicago St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>429</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>197</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.18</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Nicholls St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>576</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>263</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.19</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Kennesaw St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,351</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>606</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.23</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Houston Baptist</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>628</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>281</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.23</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Youngstown St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,485</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,110</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Towson</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,105</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>493</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Missouri State</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,050</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,052</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.31</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northern Arizona</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>646</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>277</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.33</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Liberty</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,515</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>648</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Central Conn. St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,967</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>840</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Norfolk St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,862</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>789</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.36</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Nebraska-Omaha</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>897</td>
<td class="xl66">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>373</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.40</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northwestern St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,094</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>453</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.42</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Iowa</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11,869</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,846</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.45</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">High Point</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,402</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>571</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Maryland</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,182</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,356</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Mizzou KC</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,308</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>531</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Western Ill.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,182</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>479</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Loyola (MD)</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,237</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>501</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Holy Cross</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,821</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>729</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.50</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.C. A&T</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,262</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>902</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.51</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">CSU Northridge</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,160</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>456</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.54</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Old Dominion</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,142</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,789</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.56</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UC Riverside</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>970</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>378</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.57</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tulane</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,252</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>875</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.57</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Auburn</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,502</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,501</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.60</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">DePaul</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,740</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,944</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.63</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">San Francisco</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,050</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>770</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.66</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Princeton</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,572</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>959</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.68</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northern Iowa</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,406</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,640</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.69</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Duquesne</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,204</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,169</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.74</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Miami (OH)</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,797</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>649</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.77</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UTEP</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,341</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,639</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.78</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Columbia</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,431</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>514</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.78</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Morgan St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,788</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>640</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.79</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Miami (FL)</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,936</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,407</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.80</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Illinois St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,783</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,703</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Radford</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,000</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>356</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Savannah St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,902</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>677</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Lamar</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,834</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,005</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.82</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South Carolina</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,868</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,139</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.83</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Rider</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,607</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>567</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.83</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Harvard</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,152</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>747</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.88</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Long Island</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,052</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>364</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.89</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Illinois-Chicago</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,934</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,011</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.90</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Florida Intl.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,071</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>368</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.91</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Colorado</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,804</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,679</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.91</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">West. Michigan</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,745</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>941</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">2.92</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11,950</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,988</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.00</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Arizona St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,411</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,804</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.00</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Coppin St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,173</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>391</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.00</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Charlotte</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,001</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,994</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.01</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">LA Monroe</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,438</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>477</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.01</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Georgia St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,450</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>474</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.06</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Robert Morris</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,441</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>470</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.07</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">William & Mary</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,071</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>668</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Joseph's</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,197</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,348</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.11</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.C. Asheville</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,038</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>651</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.13</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Kansas St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12,783</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,069</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">East Carolina</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,801</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,528</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Southern Miss</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,750</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,179</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.18</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Elon</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,244</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>388</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.21</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">USC</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,970</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,238</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.21</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Rice</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,364</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>424</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.22</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Vermont</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,484</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>768</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.23</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.C. Wilmington</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,439</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,063</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Jacksonville St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,182</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>365</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Virginia Tech</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,395</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,584</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.25</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Jacksonville</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,750</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>534</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.28</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Colorado St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,193</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,273</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.29</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Monmouth</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,724</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>522</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.30</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Geo. Washington</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,561</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>769</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.33</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Vanderbilt</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,698</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,113</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.33</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Longwood</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,068</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>320</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Virginia</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10,522</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,152</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Yale</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,567</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>464</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Oral Roberts</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,494</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,317</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.41</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Oklahoma St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9,239</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,675</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.45</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Belmont</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,012</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>582</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Gardner-Webb</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,504</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>435</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">West. Kentucky</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,993</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,153</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.46</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">American U.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,267</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>365</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Eastern Wash.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,286</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>658</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">SE Missouri St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,356</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>676</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.49</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Oregon St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,991</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,431</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.49</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Florida St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,541</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,428</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.52</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Mount St. Mary's</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,246</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>354</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.52</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Pacific</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,091</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>594</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.52</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wisconsin</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>17,181</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,846</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.55</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Austin Peay</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,712</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>753</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.60</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Albany</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,480</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>686</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.62</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">North Dakota St</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,156</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>866</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.64</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Furman</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,561</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>422</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.70</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Cal Poly</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,242</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>606</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.70</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South. Methodist</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,013</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>539</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.73</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Rhode Island</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,829</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,025</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.74</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Temple</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,165</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,170</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.76</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Niagara</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,532</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>406</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.77</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Kentucky</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>23,721</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,282</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.78</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">IUPUI</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,133</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>300</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.78</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Bonaventure</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,926</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,025</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.83</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Eastern Kentucky</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,911</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>498</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.84</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Winthrop</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,608</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>419</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.84</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">North Texas</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,006</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,042</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.84</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Idaho</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,517</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>391</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.88</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Appalachian St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,761</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>445</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.96</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Pepperdine</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,240</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>312</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">3.97</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">New Mexico St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,572</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,387</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.02</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Portland</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,478</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>611</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.06</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Santa Clara</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,483</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>606</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">California</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,532</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,076</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.11</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Western Carolina</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,919</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>463</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Minnesota</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11,794</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,835</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.16</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Air Force</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,325</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>556</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.18</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Florida Atlantic</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,122</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>504</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.21</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Fordham</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,343</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>553</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Oregon</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,630</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,789</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.26</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UC Irvine</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,477</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>344</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.29</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Murray St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,144</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,413</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.35</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Iona</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,476</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>567</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.37</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UCSB</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,323</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>754</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.41</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wagner</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,731</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>390</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.44</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Pittsburgh</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,801</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,982</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.44</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">West Virginia</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9,930</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,223</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.47</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Washington St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,749</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,056</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.50</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Ohio St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16,511</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,666</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.50</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">George Mason</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,161</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,132</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.56</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Washington</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,785</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,886</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.66</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Stony Brook</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,540</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>330</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.67</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northwestern</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,972</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,270</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.70</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Georgia Tech</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,929</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,042</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.73</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">San Diego</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,496</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>524</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.76</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Hawaii</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,454</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,351</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.78</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Hofstra</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,403</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>503</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.78</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">CSU Fullerton</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,210</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>249</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.86</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Quinnipiac</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,954</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>401</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.87</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Seattle</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,944</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>600</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.91</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Manhattan</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,577</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>321</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.91</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">IPFW</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,657</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>337</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.92</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Troy</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,754</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>356</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.93</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">TX Arlington</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,131</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>429</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.97</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Marshall</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,150</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,234</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">4.98</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">La Salle</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,209</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>436</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.07</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Dayton</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12,154</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,382</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Long Beach St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,621</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>704</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Oakland</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,346</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>647</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.17</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Fairfield</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,239</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>430</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.21</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Boise St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,359</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>836</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.21</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northeastern</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,331</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>249</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.35</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Buffalo</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,684</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>493</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.44</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tulsa</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,423</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>803</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.51</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Mississippi St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,019</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,442</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.56</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wichita St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10,391</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,855</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.60</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Mary's</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,840</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>497</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.71</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UCLA</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,353</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,110</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.72</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Loyola Marymnt</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,480</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>427</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">CSU Bakersfield</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,613</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>275</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.87</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.C. St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,560</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,306</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.88</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Boston College</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,699</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>790</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.95</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Detroit</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,272</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>380</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">5.98</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Xavier</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10,155</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,690</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.01</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Francis (NY)</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,289</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>214</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.02</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Akron</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,440</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>569</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.05</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">South Florida</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,849</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>631</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Cornell</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,332</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>381</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.12</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Arkansas</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,096</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,127</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.16</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Loyola (IL)</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,277</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>363</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.27</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Lafayette</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,902</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>302</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.30</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Tennessee St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,338</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>530</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.30</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Southern Utah</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,541</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>401</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wofford</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,493</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>235</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.35</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Kansas</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16,445</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,552</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.44</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Michigan</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11,436</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,773</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.45</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. John's</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,428</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,260</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.69</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Pennsylvania</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,203</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>627</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.70</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Missouri</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11,830</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,764</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.71</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Kent St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,475</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>512</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.79</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Bucknell</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,169</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>466</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.80</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Ball St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,724</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>536</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.95</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Mississippi</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,770</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>825</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">6.99</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Arizona</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13,602</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,911</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.12</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Houston</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,788</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>531</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.13</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UAB</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,564</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>636</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.18</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Nevada</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,237</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>725</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.22</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Massachusetts</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,279</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>591</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wisc. Milwaukee</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,154</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>569</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.30</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Evansville</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,135</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>694</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.40</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Valparaiso</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,383</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>454</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.45</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">North Carolina</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20,159</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,630</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.67</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Southern Ill.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,299</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>429</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">7.69</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Davidson</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,957</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>493</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.03</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">N.C. Greensboro</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,943</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>360</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.18</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Weber St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,493</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>781</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.31</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Utah Valley</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,952</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>355</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.32</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Alabama</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12,484</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,490</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Florida</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10,434</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,245</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.38</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Bradley</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,640</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>907</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.42</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Clemson</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,828</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>908</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.62</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Marquette</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15,138</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,710</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.85</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Seton Hall</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,941</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>779</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">8.91</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Indiana</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16,462</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,802</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">9.14</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Charleston</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,321</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>471</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">9.17</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Butler</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,599</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>687</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">9.61</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Villanova</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,923</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>923</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">9.67</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Cincinnati</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,069</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>789</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">10.23</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UCF</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,723</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>559</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">10.24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Cleveland St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,260</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>308</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">10.58</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Siena</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,509</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>596</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">10.92</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Utah</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,394</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>767</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">10.94</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wake Forest</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,675</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>788</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">11.01</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Richmond</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,660</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>512</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">11.05</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wright St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,903</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>342</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">11.41</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Ohio</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6,177</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>529</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">11.68</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Georgetown</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11,283</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>963</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">11.72</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">LA Lafayette</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3,566</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>302</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">11.81</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Memphis</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16,234</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,335</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">12.16</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UNLV</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14,025</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,100</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">12.75</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Brigham Young</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15,424</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,206</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">12.79</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Utah St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8,406</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>647</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">12.99</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Denver</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,460</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>419</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">13.03</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Illinois</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14,986</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,070</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">14.01</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">VA Commonwealth</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,622</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>486</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">15.68</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Creighton</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16,665</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>892</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">18.68</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">San Diego St.</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12,096</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>619</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">19.54</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Providence</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,883</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>375</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">21.02</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Saint Louis</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,757</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>356</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">21.79</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Syracuse</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>23,618</td>
<td class="xl65">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,065</td>
<td class="xl67" align="right">22.18</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/21/3659730/ncaa-womens-basketball-attendance-mensJames Bowman2012-11-13T11:01:09-05:002012-11-13T11:01:09-05:00Reflecting on the Top 100 list with a D-I coach
<figure>
<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/CXIcmD0BOzNk5GhxDKGB3NWqALg=/0x8:600x408/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/3173349/gyi0064064218.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Kevin C. Cox</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>A Division I coach helps us reflect on the criteria for our Top 100 programs list with a discussion about attendance, recruiting, and red flags. <em>For the full list, visit<a href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3579740/2012-top-100-programs-womens-college-basketball" target="new"> our Top 100 programs storystream</a>. </em></p> <p>Our <a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3579740/2012-top-100-programs-womens-college-basketball">Top 100 Programs in Division I women's basketball list</a> gets noticed. People may not agree with the results, but it is definitely a springboard for discussion.</p>
<p>Over the last three years, I've gotten some mail about the list but usually from fans or from college media directors that might point out some error of fact that needs to be changed - an incorrect spelling or year, for example.</p>
<p>This year was different.</p>
<p>I received an e-mail from a head coach at a Division I women's basketball school who agreed to talk to Swish Appeal off-the record about the list. I had the chance to speak to the coach over the phone, taking copious notes and I can say that the call was a true eye-opener about life at the Division I head coaching level.</p>
<p>Our anonymous Division I head coach was familiar with the Top 100 Division I programs list, having read the previous list when it was released in 2011. One thing the coach liked about the list was that it wasn't entirely a wins-based list - it makes an attempt to capture other facets of what makes a college basketball program successful. The coach agreed that having a winning tradition and fan support were important, but expressed concern that low major conferences might be overlooked.</p>
<p>In short, there was definitely a lot to talk about.</p>
<h4>Attendance</h4>
<p>We discussed two aspects of the list: attendance and recruiting. I mentioned that the current list uses four years of attendance data, which led to the discussion of how D-I schools counted attendance. The coach shared with me a conversation with a marketing director - one from a previous employer before their current head coaching job. The director counted the members of each team, the workers at the scorer's tables, the cheerleaders, the parents, staff etc. in the final attendance numbers! After adding season ticket holders who might not be physically present the school could possibly get an extra three digits in "attendance" before a single ticket was sold.</p>
<p>In the coach's eyes, there appeared to be a lot of latitude among programs as to how attendance was counted. Like WNBA attendance, attendance depends on who is doing the counting, and butts-in-seats might not equal numbers-on-paper. The coach felt that that some women's basketball programs had legitimate attendance numbers, but other numbers might be suspect.</p>
<h4>Recruiting</h4>
<p>We discussed how recruiting was calculated in the Top 100 list. In building the list I made use of the ESPN website, specifically the old Hoopgurlz player ranking sites in order to measure the name value of a player and the success programs had in picking up name recruits.</p>
<p>Our coach stated that in some cases, parents or other interested parties would lobby the workers at Hoopgurlz or other national ranking sites for inclusion on the list. They mentioned a case of a girl on the Hoopgurlz Top 100 list that played in the school's recruiting area. The coach defined the school's recruiting area as a six-hour driving radius, and this player was just ninety minutes away. The coach assessed the player and determined that the player was simply not good enough to recruit. That player who made the list - and was passed up by the coach's program - ended up at a Colonial Athletic Association school as a bench player who did not/is not getting any playing time.</p>
<p>The coach suspected that some big name programs recruit from these top 100 lists as a method of promotion - a big-name program could claim that they had recruited "x" number of top 100 girls or had a highly ranked recruiting class regardless of the accuracy of the player rankings.</p>
<p>In all, the coach stated that recruiting rankings had to be greatly discounted. I asked about whether they would rather recruit a player with great athleticism or a player with good (but not great) athleticism that might better fit into their system. After thinking about it, the coach preferred the latter.</p>
<p>The coach mentioned Chris Mooney, the men's basketball head coach at Richmond. Mooney's primary recruiting targets were players who he felt best fit into his system, the implication being that such players would be better choices than the kind of players that would make recruiting lists and might turn up their noses at playing anywhere other than a high-major program.</p>
<p>In passing, the coach mentioned that some parents have "Division I" eyes - parents simply cannot conceive of their daughter not playing in Division I, even though a non-DI school would be a better fit for their child's talents.</p>
<h4>Green Flags and Red Flags</h4>
<p>I asked the coach if there were any "red flags" that would indicate that a program was a bad program.</p>
<p>The coach mentioned a high major Division I program - a program listed on the Top 100 list - using the words "the program is in shambles". This high major program had no winning tradition and the implication was that a program is a candidate for bad program status if coaches there cannot win games...but after departing those coaches can win games at other programs.</p>
<p>Another possible red flag could be a program where both the men's and women's programs are successful and win games but there is a huge gap in attendance between the men's games and the women's games. The coach felt that the experience and support on the men's side should naturally filter down to the women's side. The coach mentioned another program on the Top 100 list where the men's program can fill its voluminous arena but where the women's games are virtually deserted.</p>
<p>I thought that one sign of a poor program might be one with a lot of transfers. On the issue of transfers, our coach stated that it was, "kind of a red flag...either the program is not recruiting the right kids, or not treating the kids right." "Some programs don't treat kids very well," our coach said.</p>
<p>However, transfers are not a universal sign of a bad program, since players can transfer for a number of reasons. In the coach's first couple of years, three players had transferred out of their program.</p>
<h4>More on recruiting</h4>
<p>I took the opportunity to ask more about recruiting at the Division I college level, and the size of the recruiting pool. This coach - looking at high school juniors - starts with a mailing list of about 120 players who will receive some sort of letter about once a week for approximately six months. These letters are all signed by the coach and are personalized to some degree. There are only three or four roster spots to be filled and candidates will be eliminated from the list for a number of reasons.</p>
<p>However, this initial pool of recruits is simply a starting point - like following a highway with many exits, off-roads and scenic routes, any of which could yield an unexpected success. Our coach was watching the game of a recruit on their mailing list and saw a kid on one of the teams that was <i>better</i> than the kid on the mailing list and furthermore was open to being recruited.</p>
<p>Of the four roster spots that were filled, three of those players were not in the initial pool of 120. One player was seen at a summer tournament. Another was from outside the United States.</p>
<p>In one case, the coach went to see a prospect at an out-of-state high school with a very successful girls basketball program, as this player was the best friend of one of the players already on the college team. The school already had offers out to three or four other recruits, but the coach felt that this player could be an asset for the program. The player in question was offered, but was also told by the coach that other players had already been offered scholarships - "if one of those other kids calls back before you accept, then they get the scholarship". The final result was that the program got a player from a high school which was a proven pipeline to high major programs.</p>
<p>(A side note: the coach makes it clear that when something like this happens, they have already told those who have been offered that they would be offering to someone else as well. "Hey, we offered you on September first, now it's October first, and we are bringing in another girl on campus to offer her as well." Unfortunately, our coach said, this is not always the case at other universities.)</p>
<p>I asked the coach if they got referrals regarding players from knowledgeable alumni or high school coaches.</p>
<p>"Yes," was the answer, "but the trick is to figure out who is knowledgeable".</p>
<p>Coaches get referrals all the time; the problem is that referrals might not be very good. Often the coach gets a call with something like "this kid can play in the CAA" or "this kid is an SEC-level kid" but until a coach gets a handle on who knows their stuff the only way the talent can be measured is through a direct assessment.</p>
<p>The coach's program once picked up a recruit through an elite camp held at the school. They made an offer right there. (This is not unheard of, although websites like recruiting-101.com state that offers to camp players who aren't in the recruiting pool are an infrequent occurrences.) After the offer, the prospect took two hours to make a commitment decision - the two hours was for the player to contact her parents who weren't at the camp and talk over the offer.</p>
<p>Of the four spots that our coach filled, all of them took their official visit to the school. However, two of the players had committed to the program before the visit.</p>
<h4>Impressions</h4>
<p>Our conversation left a strong impression on me. I had already made plans for next year on de-emphasizing both attendance and recruiting in the metric, as well as looking at the issue of the discrepancies between men's attendance and women's attendance.</p>
<p>In addition, the coach mentioned a school in their conference that they said "had never finished below third place" in x number of years. Teams which finish consistently well in their conference - but do not win either tournament or regular-season championships - might deserve a measure to give their programs credit.</p>
<p>When we talked about specific schools that were great programs, Gonzaga was mentioned. The coach knew that the school had plenty of community support. James Madison was also mentioned, a school with "great fans and great tradition" and a program with good support.</p>
<p>There is a great difference in having an off-the-record conversation with a coach and having a conversation at a press conference (I had mentioned to the coach something said at a press conference this season, and the coach responded that it was said only because they couldn't think of anything else to say!).</p>
<p>I'll have to admit, I might have been turned into a fan of the school on this conversation, and if I haven't been, at the very least I'll be watching this school very closely over this season and the following seasons. With luck, we might hear more from the coach in the future, but even if not I'll be taking what I've learned and applying it to future Top 100 lists.</p>
<p><i>For a look at our full 2012 Top 100 NCAA women's basketball programs list, visit<a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3579740/2012-top-100-programs-womens-college-basketball"> our storystream</a>. </i></p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/13/3638200/top-100-ncaa-division-1-womens-basketball-programs-reflectionJames Bowman2012-11-03T19:23:24-04:002012-11-03T19:23:24-04:00Full list of Top 100 NCAA women's hoops programs
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<p>With the top 100 programs list now complete, it's probably helpful to have a full list of the programs to look at in one place.</p>
<p>So here's the full list with links to the programs in the headers:</p>
<h4><a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/2/3524410/ncaa-womens-basketball-top-100-programs-recruiting-infractions/in/3343781">Programs #1-10</a></h4>
<p>#1: Connecticut<br>#2: Tennessee<br>#3: Baylor<br>#4: Stanford<br>#5: Notre Dame<br>#6: Texas A&M<br>#7: Duke<br>#8: Maryland<br>#9: Oklahoma<br>#10: Louisville</p>
<h4><a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/1/3513710/ncaa-womens-basketball-top-100-programs-11-25/in/3343781">Programs #11-25</a></h4>
<p>#11: Rutgers<br>#12: Kentucky<br>#13: North Carolina<br>#14: Iowa State<br>#15: Michigan State<br>#16: Vanderbilt<br>#17: West Virginia<br>#18: Georgia Tech<br>#19: Purdue<br>#20: LSU<br>#21: Texas<br>#22: Ohio State<br>#23: Georgia<br>#24: Virginia<br>#25: Georgetown</p>
<h4><a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3513638/top-100-womens-basketball-programs-26-40-rpi/in/3343781"> Programs #26-40</a></h4>
<p><br>#26: St. John's<br>#27: Gonzaga<br>#28: Iowa<br>#29: Florida State<br>#30: Middle Tennessee State<br>#31: UCLA<br>#32: Texas Tech<br>#33: Penn State<br>#34: Miami (FL)<br>#35: DePaul<br>#36: James Madison<br>#37: Oklahoma State<br>#38: Wisconsin-Green Bay<br>#39: California<br>#40: Dayton</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/30/3509088/ncaa-womens-basketball-top-programs-41-70/in/3343781">Programs #41-70</a></p>
<p>#41: South Carolina<br>#42: Florida<br>#43: Nebraska<br>#44: USC<br>#45: Syracuse<br>#46: Kansas State<br>#47: Marist<br>#48: Michigan<br>#49: Temple<br>#50: Auburn<br>#51: Arkansas<br>#52: Marquette<br>#53: Xavier<br>#54: Princeton<br>#55: Arizona State<br>#56: Fresno State<br>#57: Kansas<br>#58: Bowling Green<br>#59: Texas Christian<br>#60: Delaware<br>#61: St. Bonaventure<br>#62: Mississippi State<br>#63: Illinois State<br>#64: Wake Forest<br>#65: South Dakota State<br>#66: Brigham Young<br>#67: Wisconsin<br>#68: South Florida<br>#69: Colorado<br>#70: Arkansas-Little Rock</p>
<h4><a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/29/3509016/ncaa-womens-college-basketball-top-programs-71-100/in/3343781">Programs #71-100</a></h4>
<p>#71: Toledo<br>#72: North Carolina State<br>#73: Minnesota<br>#74: Richmond<br>#75: Creighton<br>#76: Missouri State<br>#77: Utah<br>#78: Arizona<br>#79: Washington<br>#80: Old Dominion<br>#81: Charlotte<br>#82: Liberty<br>#83: Duquesne<br>#84: San Diego State<br>#85: Villanova<br>#86: Hartford<br>#87: Drexel<br>#88: Hampton<br>#89: Chattanooga<br>#90: Tulane<br>#91: Pittsburgh<br>#92: Oregon State<br>#93: Northwestern<br>#94: Virginia Commonwealth<br>#95: Louisiana Tech<br>#96: Harvard<br>#97: Boston College<br>#98: Providence<br>#99: UTEP<br>#100: Pepperdine</p>
<p>What do you think of the list? What would your top 10, 50, 100 programs be? Let us know in the comments.</p>
<p><i>For the full menu of articles, check out our <a target="_blank" href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3579740/2012-top-100-programs-womens-college-basketball">top 100 programs storystream</a>.</i></p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/3/3596590/top-100-programs-womens-ncaa-division-i-basketball-full-listNate P2012-11-02T08:00:05-04:002012-11-02T08:00:05-04:00Top 100 Programs in DI women's BB: #1-10
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<p>This entry in the list of Swish Appeals Top 100 Programs in Division I women's college basketball looks at the teams ranked #1-10 as well as the history of NCAA infractions in women's basketball. <em>For the full list of top 100 programs, <a href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3579740/2012-top-100-programs-womens-college-basketball" target="new">check out our top 100 programs storystream</a>.</em></p> <p>There is a list with the names of at least 42 teams that the NCAA keeps in a very special place. Unfortunately, it is not a list of previous women's basketball champions. Rather, it is the list of women's basketball teams in Division I where the NCAA has released a report on rules violations. <br><br>The NCAA releases reports of its investigations on its website. These are teams which have fallen afoul of the NCAA Division I Manual. The current version - 444 pages of .pdf glory - isn't entirely about recruiting and eligibility, but most of it is. Terms used in the manual are defined so that there can be no mistake about what they mean, and situations are covered in painstaking detail. There is an annual exam which coaches must take before they can hit the road and recruit. It is thirty questions and open book, and most coaches can surprisingly pass it. Most are true/false, but many are stumpers.</p>
<p>With Mississippi head coach Adrian Wiggins all but fired due to infractions involving his coaching staff, it is very difficult for coaches - or their minders - to claim that they are not aware of what the rules are. And yet, the NCAA has handed down a surprising number of decisions against women's basketball programs.<br><br><b>The case of Baylor</b><br><br>Baylor was the most recent school to fall afoul of the NCAA. Among the findings of the NCAA were a large number of impermissible phone calls and text messages sent in 2008 and 2011. The overwhelming majority of these were made by the mysterious "assistant women's basketball coach A" who is later revealed to be a male.<br><br>(It is amusing that in NCAA reports of infractions, none of the "infractors" are named, leading to the fun game of connect-the-dots. "Head women's basketball coach" is probably a giveaway. There is also the mysterious "prospect 1" - more on that below.) <br><br>The odd part of the story is that Baylor had a computerized system used to log calls and text messages, and it malfunctioned. Some calls/texts were flagged as violations that shouldn't have been flagged, and vice-versa. Baylor had to reconfigure its system and reimport records from January and July 2011 to get them correctly flagged.<br><br>"Assistant women's basketball Coach A" stated the majority of these calls and texts to the father of a prospect who was a personal friend. This prospect wasn't being recruited by Baylor and ended up at SMU. The report implies that the head coach's unlogged calls were voicemail messages.<br><br>There was also impermissible contact with a recruit known as "prospect 1". (Hint: she'll probably be "prospect 1" in the 2013 WNBA Draft.) Prospect 1's father and the head women's basketball coach seemed to be communicating about the coach's daughter and prospect 1 playing on the same summer team. These violations were considered secondary.<br><br>The result was that Baylor lost a couple of scholarships for 2011-12 and the violators faced restrictions on off-campus recruiting, phone calls, and text messages. <br><br>It's understandable why coaches such as Muffet McGraw of Notre Dame might be angry. "Hey," she might be asking herself, "when do<i> I</i> get to make some impermissible telephone calls and text messages?" Other coaches might perform a mental calculus and think, "I'll take a hit of a couple of scholarships if it gets me a shot at a super prospect."<br><br><b>How bad is bad?</b><br><br>What follows is a list of all of the NCAA infraction decisions involving Division I schools in women's basketball since 1983. Others have complained that the database is not complete, so as they say, "what's there is there".<br><br>Furthermore, the women's basketball program can end up in a dragnet with several other programs from the same school, and it's sometimes difficult to separate the penalties which are women's basketball-specific. In that case, the notation "Men" in a column indicates such a situation where the men received more significant penalties that the women did not.<br><br>Finally, it can be very difficult to summarize a long text to its most important points. Any faults in the summary of violations is mine; you can go to the website and read the report if you dispute the conclusions.</p>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">4/30/1984</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Alcorn State</td>
<td>improper recruiting contacts</td>
<td>reprimand</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>0 yr</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Louisiana-Monroe</td>
<td>improper recruiting contacts</td>
<td>no off-campus recruiting</td>
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<td>1 yr</td>
<td>1 yr</td>
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<td>by head coach</td>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">5/29/1986</td>
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<td>Memphis</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>improper financial aid</td>
<td>return of money</td>
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<td>Men</td>
<td>Men</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Mississippi State</td>
<td>use of telephone cards by athletes</td>
<td>report on compliance</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>1 yr</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Eastern Kentucky</td>
<td>provision of cash by head coach</td>
<td>official visit and grant</td>
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<td>1 yr</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
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<td>reduction</td>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">10/26/1990</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Texas Pan-American</td>
<td>impermissible recruiting</td>
<td>one year recruiting ban</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>1 yr</td>
<td>1 yr</td>
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<td>no television one year</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">San Diego State</td>
<td>head coach helped negotiate pro</td>
<td>none, unique case</td>
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<td>0 yr</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
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<td>agent contract for player</td>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">4/8/1992</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Vanderbilt</td>
<td>providing false information to<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
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<td>none, institution took</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>0 yr</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
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<td>NCAA on secondary violation</td>
<td>appropriate actions</td>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">10/1/1992</td>
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<td>Syracuse</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>gifts of clothing and free</td>
<td>recertification</td>
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<td>Men</td>
<td>Men</td>
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<td>services by boosters</td>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">11/6/1992</td>
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<td>Lamar</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>free airline tickets for players</td>
<td>loss of financial aid</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>1 yr</td>
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<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">St. Bonaventure</td>
<td>impermissible recruiting, extra</td>
<td>limit on official visits<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>benefits</td>
<td>and recruiting</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">12/21/1994</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Alcorn State</td>
<td>fraudulent SAT Scores</td>
<td>reduction in one scholarship</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>Men</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">3/16/1995</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Morgan State</td>
<td>lack of institutional control,</td>
<td>reduction of two scholarships</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>1 yr</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>improper practice, financial aid</td>
<td>forfeiture of contests</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">9/6/1995</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Bethune-Cookman</td>
<td>incomplete squad lists</td>
<td>recertification</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>Men</td>
<td>Men</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">5/1/1997</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>UTEP</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>improper recruiting inducements</td>
<td>limit of scholarships</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>5 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>trips and gifts provided</td>
<td>for two seasons</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">7/3/1997</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Kansas State</td>
<td>impermissible recruiting, failure<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td>forfeit of games,</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>to monitor camps</td>
<td>summer camps</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">7/31/1997</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Grambling</td>
<td>improper financial aid</td>
<td>forfeit of games,</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>rules education</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">4/6/1998</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Savannah State</td>
<td>financial aid limits exceeded</td>
<td>reduction in scholarships</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>4 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">8/4/1998</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Texas Tech</td>
<td>improper supplement of academic</td>
<td>reduction in one scholarship</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>4 yrs</td>
<td>Men</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>records with correspondence<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>courses</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">6/30/1999</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>Purdue</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>exchange of basketball gear for</td>
<td>instruction</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>merchandise</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">12/14/1999</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Arkansas-Little Rock</td>
<td>impermissible recruiting</td>
<td>self-imposed penalties</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">11/27/2001</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>Howard</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>free airline tickets for players</td>
<td>loss of scholarships and paid visits</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>1 yr</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">1/8/2002</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Stephen F. Austin</td>
<td>coach arranged free textbooks for</td>
<td>self-imposed penalties</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
<td>0 yr</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>summer school</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">7/2/2002</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Minnesota</td>
<td>impermissible benefits, violation</td>
<td>reduction in financial aid, paid</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>of practice time rules</td>
<td>visits</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">9/10/2003</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Fresno State</td>
<td>illegal transportation and tutoring</td>
<td>self-imposed penalties</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>4 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>of a possible recruit</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">12/18/2003</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Chicago State</td>
<td>impermissible workouts, recruiting</td>
<td>reduction in official visits,</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>violations</td>
<td>evaluation days</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">1/4/2004</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Gardner-Webb</td>
<td>head coach paid for Polish recruit's</td>
<td>reduction in financial aid, paid</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>Men</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>airline ticket</td>
<td>visits</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">4/21/2005</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Stony Brook</td>
<td>ineligible students played in<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td>compliance review</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>1999-2000</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">1/19/2006</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Weber State</td>
<td>students used money for textbooks</td>
<td>compliance review</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>to purchase other items</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">2/1/2006</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Florida A&M</td>
<td>compliance officer did not keep</td>
<td>reduction in one scholarship,</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>4 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>up with paperwork</td>
<td>forfeit of games</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">3/10/2006</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Ohio State</td>
<td>discounted orthodontic treatment</td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">development of education program</td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>provided by booster</td>
<td>on NCAA regulations</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">3/29/2006</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Alcorn State</td>
<td>violation of practice time rules</td>
<td>limit in official visits, scholarships,</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>1 yr</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>compliance officer<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>warning ignored</td>
<td>compliance seminar required</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">8/2/2006</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Northern Illinois</td>
<td>faculty member helped player with</td>
<td>reprimand, 2-yr ban on faculty</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>1 yr</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>cell phone bill, travel</td>
<td>member as player mentor</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">8/22/2007</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>Purdue</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>assistant coach wrote student</td>
<td>reduction in scholarships, student</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>term paper</td>
<td>ineligible to play</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">1/18/2008</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Prairie View A&M</td>
<td>improper practices, provision of</td>
<td>reduced scholarships, practice<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>4 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>small amounts of cash</td>
<td>hours, paid visits</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">6/18/2008</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">SE Missouri State</td>
<td>impermissible housing and</td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">reduction of scholarships, recruiting</td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>transportation of players</td>
<td>days, forfeit of games</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">3/6/2009</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Florida State</td>
<td>improper academic assistance</td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">reduction of scholarships, forfeit of</td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>wins</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">6/11/2009</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>Alabama</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>abuse of textbook program</td>
<td>fines, education program</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">11/5/2009</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Richmond</td>
<td>impermissible text messages from</td>
<td>self-imposed penalties</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>coaches to recruits</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">3/30/2010</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>IUPUI</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>ineligible students played</td>
<td>self-imposed penalties</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>for school</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">9/29/2011</td>
<td><br></td>
<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore:colspan">Cincinnati</td>
<td>impermissible recruiting phone</td>
<td>assistant may not place<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>2 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>calls by assistant</td>
<td>or receive calls, education</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;" align="right" height="20">4/11/2012</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>Baylor</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>impermissible phone calls, text<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td>reduction of scholarships, calls,</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>3 yrs</td>
<td>0 yrs</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td>messaging, recruit contact</td>
<td>recruiting, travel</td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><br><br>* On the average, every eight months the NCAA releases a report of infractions involving a Division I women's basketball school.<br><br>* Alcorn State has been hit three times with NCAA violations involving women's basketball - once in each decade.<br><br>* Purdue is the only power conference team to be hit with two different infraction decisions - once in 1999 and once in 2007.<br><br>* Three power conferences - the Big Twelve, the SEC and the Big Ten - have had three schools with infraction decisions. Counting Purdue twice, the Big Ten leads with four total decisions.<br><br>* The Pac-Twelve is the only power conference with no infraction decisions. The ACC has only one school suffering penalties, Florida State in 2009.<br><br>* Only five schools have ever suffered a post-season ban, one year in each case, the last such decision handed down in 2006. No school in a power conference has ever suffered a post-season ban and there has been nothing remotely approaching a death penalty for any women's basketball school.<br><br>* There is one head coach who was involved in infractions at two different schools - Minnesota in a 2002 decision and Chicago State in a 2003 decision.<br><br>Compared to some of the stuff on this list - fraudulent SAT scores, assistant coaches writing papers - Baylor's violation might seem like nothing much compared to what goes on in the men's game. As one person on a message board put it:<br><br>Yawn. Phone call violations. Yawn. Text violations. Yawn. No illegal money changed hands. No fancy cars were delivered. No Booster Club members paid-off any players or their families. No proof, or even any allegations that the phone calls or text messages influenced a single player to come to Baylor. I'm not a Baylor fan, but is this truly much ado about nothing?<br><br>But since women's basketball is relatively free of scandal, things which might be considered minor violations by outsiders are viewed as a serious stirring of the waters by those invested in the sport. When a school which has recently won a national championship is hit with infractions, one can understand the point of view of those that want to keep women's basketball pristine.<br><br><b>The worst job in athletics</b><br><br>So who at the university is watching the watchmen? If the coach can't be expected to keep track of the rules, then who is? That would be the university compliance office, generally a member of the athletics department.<br><br>According to Seth Wickersham at ESPN, the worst job in athletics is that of compliance officer. These men and women doing a thankless job belong to the National Association for Athletics Compliance. The highest honor given by NAAC is the Frank Kara Leadership Award, first granted in 2008. Winners have represented Texas, Michigan, Rutgers, Indiana and the Big East Conference.<br><br>An interesting line in Wickersham's article is that coaches will read the biographies of compliance officers, looking for hints on how the relationship is going to go. Is the compliance officer an older alumnus? Good sign. Is the compliance officer a newly-minted law school graduate? Bad sign.</p>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore: colspan;">Marielle vanGelder</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="mso-ignore: colspan;">MA Connecticut</td>
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<p><br><br>* - indicates law degree, if known<br><br>Note that Connecticut is charged with having one of the smaller compliance offices - certainly one of the smallest (if not the smallest) in the Big East. But many schools don't have compliance offices that much larger. Most of the major college women's programs are from schools with small staffs. It makes one wonder what the staffs of mid and low major compliance departments look like.<br><br>For all the fuss about Baylor, they did the right things for the most part. Many of the infractions were self-reported or secondary violations. The compliance officers around in 2008 have been dismissed - Chad Jackson has only been there since 2011. In 2010, Baylor hired Lori Ebihara from the Big Twelve office to be their compliance director, a great hire as Ebihara had worked as the assistant compliance commissioner for the Big Twelve from 1996 to 2010. In September 2011, Ebihara was hired at Maryland to be their senior women's administrator.<br><br>But remaining a great women's basketball program depends upon staying on the right side of the line. The coach must always know where that line is. If the coach doesn't know, the compliance officer has to know - and if both don't know, the line turns out to be the border of a cliff.<br><br>(* * *)</p>
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<p>#1: <b>Connecticut</b>: My last writeup about Connecticut had the premise that a team cannot really change its rivals or decide who its rivals are. But a lot can change over a year. Pat Summitt is retired (whether by choice is another matter). The changes at Tennessee (see #2 below) are very disconcerting, and cast dark clouds over the program.<br><br>With Pat no longer pounding her ring on the court, Geno Auriemma is now the undisputed king - and he might indeed have the power to choose the program's rivals. So who gets the honor? Notre Dame? They're leaving the Big East. Baylor? Could be entirely dependent on Brittney Griner? Stanford? Does Stanford have a big enough following to deserve the honor of being Most Hated? Tennessee? Is anyone interested in Geno vs. Holly?<br><br>Undoubtedly, as Notre Dame leaves the Big East, Auriemma probably wishes he could go with them. The Big East is looking less like a basketball conference and more like a sinking ship. Auriemma doesn't stay up every night worrying about Houston, or SMU - he might worry about the travel, but nothing more. Central Florida and Memphis present no terrors. But Notre Dame and Syracuse leaving is really something to worry about.</p>
<p>I believe that there exists a Geno Mystique. (I have no proof of this.) Players go to Connecticut just to say that Geno Auriemma is their coach. The great thing about a mystique is that it turns all negatives into positives. If he belittles and mocks a player, he's just teaching her about pressure, that's all. If he works them beyond human endurance, that's just making sure they play to the standard that Connecticut demands. If he says that past players had more camaraderie, that's just Geno reminding everyone of the importance of teamwork.<br><br>Fans can wear rose-colored glasses about their coach, but when the <i>players</i> start wearing them...well then, the battle is half-won right there. Who wouldn't feel secure with Geno Auriemma on the sidelines?<br><br>Pat had a capital-M Mystique. The Stare. It was a fricking <i>honor</i> for a Tennessee player to be banned from her own locker room and made to wash her own uniforms. ("<i>Other players only wish their coaches cared that much!</i>") And now, Geno has the Mystique. Maybe only one coach in women's basketball can have The Mystique, and when Pat retired it flew to Storrs and took up residence in Geno's body.<br><br>But Connecticut is just more than Auriemma. It has something to do with the players that show up. Some people claim that the WNBA Draft after 2012 will not be interesting again until Breanna Stewart graduates - and we'll have to wait four years for her. (Hopefully there will be a league to greet her.)<br><br>You see, when Geno picks you, you're anointed. There is no longer any dispute regarding women's basketball's best active coach. If this were the Game of Thrones, the House of Orange is in disarray, and the great Huskie King to the North is now the undisputed ruler.<br><br>#2: <b>Tennessee</b>: Last year was another season that Tennessee didn't make it to at least a Final Four. Four years in a row now away from the brass ring. So why isn't Baylor here? Or Notre Dame? <br><br>Part of this is <i>attendance</i>. Tennessee brings them in every year, and you cannot argue with that. They lead the country in attendance, at least every year since 2009 - maybe before, since I don't have the number for years for 2008 and previous. But attendance doesn't just come out of wins. Wins contribute greatly to attendance, but if wins were all it took then Stanford's attendance would be a lot better than it is. There have been wins, there has been great coaching in Pat Summitt (maybe the greatest coach ever), there has been institutional support from the University and all together the fans know that Tennessee will always strive for excellence and achieve it.<br><br>So the last couple of years have been very unsettling in that they threaten to undermine the very foundations of Tennessee dominance. The program hasn't won recently, at least not in the sense of being a perennial title contender. True, it's a good squad but to Tennessee fans, the last few years have probably disappointed. If I'm counting right, this is the longest drought in Final Four appearances at Tennessee since the NCAA began sponsoring women's basketball - the Lady Vols (more on that later) have never gone four years without going at least to the Final Four.<br><br>And now the institutional support is threatening to unravel. Bad coaching decisions everywhere outside women's basketball are one of the reasons Tennessee athletics suffered a year's deficit of $4 million - those dismissed coaches are still being paid their paychecks. <br><br>So athletic director Dave Hart has pulled out his hammer. He rewrote the organizational chart. He combined the male and female athletic departments. Rumor has it that he wanted to dump the Lady Vols logo in favor of the standard "Power T" of Tennessee. He's in the middle of a nasty lawsuit with Debby Jennings who was the director of media relations for the Lady Vols for over 30 years - and Pat Summitt signed an affidavit supporting Jennings.<br><br>Not only is it a public relations nightmare for Tennessee, but it casts doubt as to what level of institutional support exists for the women's basketball program. Either the program was a wreck and Hart needed to change things, or it was fine and Hart took an axe to things for his own reasons. UT could call into question Summitt's legal competency with regard to the affidavit but that would be a case of winning the battle and losing the war.<br><br>But the really big question for Tennessee is if Pat Summitt can ever really be replaced. Yes, she'll still be there with the program but her coaching cannot be replaced - you just don't hire replacements for Pat Summitt. (How many coaches at that level exist?) So you have to make up for her loss in other areas of the program, and that would be in recruiting. Tennessee is still a go-to destination with Bashaara Graves, Andraya Carter and Jasmine Jones all wearing orange this year. Super-recruit Mercedes Russell just committed to U of T. If the faithful continue to show up in Knoxville, it will be hard to dislodge Tennessee from its lock on #2. But if Tennessee can't return to greatness, it will prove the saying that the most expensive army (so to speak) is the one that is second best.<br><br>#3: <b>Baylor</b>: Try up to come up with a list of the greatest women's college basketball performers, from Title IX all the way to today. It should be a short list. You'd have Nancy Lieberman, maybe Cheryl Miller, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi...and Brittney Griner. The next question then becomes: where does Griner place on that list?<br><br>Is Baylor <i>Baylor</i> or is Baylor <i>Griner</i>? Griner quite literally adds a dimension to women's basketball that it has never seen before. She is the overwhelming (99.999 percent) consensus pick to be the 2013 #1 WNBA Draft Pick, and Phoenix is undoubtedly planning its marketing strategy. She will be an attendance draw in every other city for the spectacle alone - how many chances are you going to get to see a female play who can actually <i>dunk</i>, not over-the-rim dunks but real throwdown dunks?<br><br>With Griner as a junior, the team won 40 games last year and lost zero. They stand a strong chance of being back-to-back National Champions with her as a senior. Back-to-back in women's college ball is not unheard-of but they would be the first back-to-back champs <i>not </i>named Connecticut or Tennessee since 1983-84 when Cheryl Miller roamed the court at USC.<br><br>For Baylor, all the questions come after Griner leaves. Will their run of success just be counted a a fluke, or will it be attributed to the program that Kim Mulkey built? If they win again, she's the only active women's basketball coach with three titles other than Geno Auriemma. Once is an accident, twice is good luck, but three times? There will be no dispute<br><br><br>#4: <b>Stanford</b>: The benchmarks keep coming and they never stop.<br><br>* The fifth consecutive Final Four appearance for the Cardinal.<br>* Another undefeated season in the Pac-Twelve for Stanford. Their last Pac-12 loss was January 28, 2009 when they lost at California 57-54.<br>* Their last home regular season Pac-12 loss was February 4, 2007 - once again to California, this time at home 72-57.<br>* Every regular season conference championship since 2001.<br><br>In terms of prestige - All American players, WNBA draft picks, high win seasons, great tournament performances - in recent years Stanford might be the second most prestigious program around, next to Connecticut. Tara VanDerveer is not just a Hall of Famer - both in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame - but a tireless advocate for the sport of women's basketball.<br><br>This season the team might not be as strong in the past - there's no Kayla Pederson or Nneka Ogwumike on the squad, but there is Nneka's sister Chiney and Nneka is the only starter they've lost. There is only one senior on the squad this year, but despite its youth don't be surprised if the Cardinal extend the strings mentioned above even further. The only thing the Cardinal doesn't do well compared to the three teams above it is attendance - and they do well enough.<br><br>#5: <b>Notre Dame</b>: Back to back NCAA Final Visits will definitely move you up on the short list of great programs. But the big news at Notre Dame is not in how they're playing but in fact who they are playing. The Fighting Irish will be moving to the ACC in all sports except football. With the Big East having lost three teams to the ACC and West Virginia to the Big Twelve, it could be that the ACC takes over the Big East's position as the best women's basketball conference in the country, and Notre Dame would presently be the best program in that conference, if not necessarily have the best team.<br><br>But that day has not yet come. Notre Dame will play one final year in the Big East, playing Connecticut twice in the regular sason. Baylor, Tennessee and Louisville will also be on their schedule. They have the World vision Classic as well, which offers the potential of a Texas A&M match up.<br><br>All eyes will be focused on Skylar Diggins who is the consensus #2 WNBA Draft pick in 2013. As someone on the internet said, what's amazing is that Diggins hasn't been surrounded with the all-star talent you see at Stanford or Connecticut. I doubt that Diggins's stock will fall anytime between now and Draft Day. <br><br>#6: <b>Texas A&M</b>: Welcome to SEC women's basketball, Aggies! There will be no "breaking in" period, you'll contend from the opening tip-off. But with Danielle Adams off to the WNBA, a comedown from championship heights was expected. Texas A&M squeezed by the second round past Arkansas by two points and fell to Maryland in the Sweet Sixteen.<br><br>There will be a lot of freshmen on Texas A&M's team this year, but oh what a group of freshmen that is. Courtney Williams. Jordan Jones. Four other Top 100 candidates. There are no less than seven freshmen on the Aggies this year, and if things work out right you might get a nice surprise in the 2015-16 season.<br><br>Unfortunately, Texas A&M graduated three starters last season. Coach Gary Blair will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, but the real Hall of Fame teams might have to wait. The Aggies should be competitive this year, but they have a vicious home stretch against Louisville, Penn State, Connecticut and Liberty that will serve as a baptism by fire to the newest Aggies.<br><br>#7: <b>Duke</b>: The ACC neighborhood - until Notre Dame moves in - seems to be run by both Duke and Maryland. And Duke can match just about anything Maryland offers. <br><br>Maryland got a tourney championship? Well, Duke was regular season champion.<br>Maryland went to the Elite Eight? Well, Duke did, too. <br>Maryland put someone on the All-American list? Elizabeth Williams made the third team - and that was as a freshman! (2015 #1 WNBA Draft pick anyone?)<br>Maryland averages 5,356 per home game? Duke averages 5,361 per home game.<br>Maryland ranked #36 on the Academic Ranking of World Universities? Duke ranked #35. <br>If Maryland and Duke each had a Prius, Duke would claim that theirs had better gas mileage.<br><br>How did it end between the two teams last year? As it should be. Duke beat Maryland 80-72 at home, Maryland returned the favor by beating Duke 63-61 in College Park. But Duke has a hard time beating programs above it on this list - they lost to Notre Dame last year - and if there's any real test in their schedule this season, it won't come until their first ACC game and they have never gotten past the Elite Eight in the McCallie Era.<br><br>#8: <b>Maryland</b>: If there is any shorthand in determining how good your program is on the court, you can always use two benchmarks - how far did you get in the postseason and who ended your season? For the Terps, it was all good - they won the ACC Tournament Championship and had won 10 straight games before losing to National Finalist Notre Dame 80-49 in the Regional Finals. The loss to Notre Dame was its only non-conference loss all season.<br><br>So where does Maryland go from here? Junior Alyssa Thomas will lead the team and she is a big gun - she was a first-team All American last year and the other names on that list are Griner, Ogwumike, Diggins, and Delle Donne. (2014 #1 WNBA Draft pick anyone?) There are only two seniors on this team and only one senior starter - Essence Townsend at 6-7. Maryland has at least four commitments lined up for the 2013-14 season and recruiting looks very strong, but sophomore PG Brene Moseley's injury might mean that freshmen might get more experience than they expected.<br><br>#9: <b>Oklahoma</b>: The Sooners are trying to get back to the glory years of the Paris sisters, but since 2008-09 just a little more paint flecks off the Oklahoma wagon. They can still win 20 games a year - it was the seventh straight 20 win season and the 13th straight NCAA tournament appearance - but a second round loss to St. John's has to sting after a third straight year of double-digit losses.<br><br>Oklahoma, however, still remains a power. G Nicole Kornet joins fellow Liberty Christian alumna Whitney Hand in Norman, preferring to stay close to home rather than join Stanford. 6-1 G Maddie Manning (no relation to Peyton) also joins a squad that brings all of its starters back this season. The next few years will decide if Oklahoma still remains a recruiting power.<br><br>#10:<b> Louisville</b>: The Cardinals had the second best attendance in 2011-12 and it was the second straight year that they averaged over 10,000 per home game. However, this is a program still looking for a way to get back to the Glory Years of Angel McCoughtry and a visit back to Final Four contention. It might be a little easier with Notre Dame now off to the ACC, but with the Big East not quite as solid anymore Louisville now finds itself on shifting ground.<br><br>The Cards were a Top 20 team when they rolled snake eyes at the NCAA Tournament - a second-round game with Maryland in College Park that they lost by four points. Monique Reid was out for the season with a left knee injury, she'll be back this year. Cierra Warren started 10 games but just left in February. So now what? This is a relatively young team, and junior PG Shoni Schimmel lead the team in scoring last year - but with 146 assists and 119 turnovers and .299 shooting from behind the arc, everyone will be looking to see where her game can get better.</p>
<p><i>For the full list of top 100 programs, <a href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3579740/2012-top-100-programs-womens-college-basketball" target="new">check out our top 100 programs storystream</a>.</i></p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/2/3524410/ncaa-womens-basketball-top-100-programs-recruiting-infractionsJames Bowman2012-11-01T11:00:05-04:002012-11-01T11:00:05-04:00Top 100 Programs in DI women's basketball: #11-25
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<p>This entry in the list of Swish Appeals Top 100 Programs in Division I women's college basketball looks at the teams ranked #11-25 and the ability to recruit in a changing environment.</p> <p>When you read the words "recruiting" in the newspaper, it invariably means football recruiting. If you read the words "recruiting" and "basketball" in the same sentence, it usually means men's basketball recruiting. Women's basketball recruiting is, at best, a media afterthought.<br><br>Yet it shouldn't be.</p>
<p>Every year, thousands of young high school juniors playing girls basketball and both the AAU are watched, contacted, visited, and offered scholarships at every single level of college basketball. Before the internet era, the comings and goings of these players were limited to a few dozen talent scouts who ran scouting companies and sold reports to college coaches - how on earth could a person keep track of all that talent? - and to knowledgeable alumni who might make a recommendation to a coach about some hot player in some state. Occasionally a Nancy Lieberman, or a Cheryl Miller or a Chamique Holdsclaw might break into national prominence but for the most part the world of women's recruiting was an unknown.<br><br>Not anymore. With the internet one can keep track of recruiting at almost every level. School-specific message boards such as the ones at Scout.com will keep track of recruits their coaches might have a chance at. Before ESPN dropped the ball, their Hoopgurlz feature was a must read. (And the prospective loss/diminishment of Hoopgurlz is unforgivable, ESPN.) And the scouting services still sell their wares, and now the basketball shoe companies have started to move in - hey, lady ballers wear shoes too and so do their schools.</p>
<p><b>The Changing Environment</b><br><br>Women's basketball coaches need to keep tabs on this changing environment, where it is very, very easy to fall behind. As Heidi Klum says, "One day you're in and the next day...<i>you're out</i>."<br><br>Part of the problem is that the rules change all the time. Coaches try to exploit loopholes and the NCAA tries to close them just as quickly, with the NCAA rules manual ballooning in size as a result. There are new rules to deal with the internet and text messages, rules the NCAA didn't even have to consider several years ago. Direct mail isn't as important as it used to be.<br><br>But some things haven't changed. A good coach can still tell which players have the correct level of skill to play in Division I. They can tell which players love the game, which players are gym rats, and which have that ever-undefined <i>heart</i>. Even so, the quest for that edge in recruiting that can turn a good program into a great program continues.</p>
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<p>#11: <b>Rutgers</b>: It looks like things have settled down in New Jersey. With the program usually making the news when a player transfers out of it, there were no net losses due to transfers and one net gain, Alexis Burke from Illinois - is the transfer curse finally broken? The big losses were the ones due to graduation - Khadijah Rushdan and April Sykes were both drafted to WNBA teams (Sykes played in thirty regular season games for the Sparks this year).<br><br>But of course, Rutgers's hallmark is its ability to recruit. C. Vivian Stringer picks up a pair of top twenty players in F Rachel Hollivay and 6-1 G Kahleah Cooper. It's another great class at Rutgers, who will be looking for a better season than one where Gonzaga knocked them out of the first round of the NCAA tournament. If attendance were better, they could be a Top 10 program.<br><br>#12: <b>Kentucky</b>: The Wildcat growl could be heard all across the nation last year and Kentucky seems to have developed something missing in previous seasons - swagger. Kentucky went to its third straight NCAA tournament ever and after two trips to the Elite Eight in three years anyone considering Kentucky a sleeping giant better wake up themselves.<br><br>All three of Kentucky's major starters are back this year, and many major magazines have this as a Top 10 squad, and A'dia Mathies has an outside shot of being a Top Five WNBA Draft Pick depending on how this season goes (Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne and Skylar Diggins are the consensus top three.) But even odder, they were #13 in attendance nationwide last year (hard for me to believe as a native Kentuckian). Will they cross 7000 in average home attendance this year? As they say in fashion, blue might be the new orange in the SEC.<br><br>#13: <b>North Carolina</b>: North Carolina's season ended in a strange place last year - the ACC Tournament, where they were beaten by Georgia Tech and despite 20 wins, the NCAA did not invite the Tarheels to the tournament. There would be no WNIT acceptance; North Carolina's season would just be over. Is North Carolina's pre-season schedule to blame?<br><br>Recruiting wise, however, this program is loaded for bear: F Xylina McDaniel (Xavier McDaniel's daughter), G N'Dea Bryant, G Antoinette Bannister and F Hillary Fuller all join the team and with those players the Tar Heels will be a power for years to come. The player everyone's waiting for is Diamond DeShields in the 2013-14 season.<br><br>#14:<b> Iowa State</b>: If attendance were the equivalent of ability, the Cyclones would be a perennial Final Four team. However, with the departure of Kelsey Bolte Iowa State sank to an uncharacteristic 18-13 record and a .500 record in the Big Twelve after an 0-5 conference start.<br><br>Hope in Ames rests on forward Chelsea Poppens, who averaged a double-double in Big Twelve conference games despite her 6-2 height. Billy Fennelly, head coach Bill Fennelly's son, was promoted to assistant coaching spot (he has prior experience elsewhere) - some fans might cry "nepotism" but if Cyclones keep winning everyone will be smiling.<br><br>#15: <b>Michigan State</b>: Despite losing seniors last year, Suzy Merchant got the Spartans back to the NCAA tournament but as a #10 seed they were booted in the first round. Now they have to figure out how to get back without Lykendra Johnson and Porsche Poole, as well as losing starter Taylor Alton to graduation. <br><br>Someone will have to shoot the 3 for the Spartans. The obvious choice would be Big Ten All-Freshman Team selection Kiana Johnson, named as a co-captain just as a sophomore. However, Merchant will have to do without Johnson for nine games, as Johnson fell afoul of violating NCAA guidelines for receiving extra benefits. Last year, MSU was 9-7 out of conference but 11-5 in the Big Ten, so hopefully Johnson will be ready when conference play starts.<br><br>#16: <b>Vanderbilt</b>: Vanderbilt is still strong but is often overlooked: it's one of those programs which has been so good (but not superlative) for so long that you almost forget them. This is a team that has been to the NCAA tournament 25 times in the last 26 years and has won 20 games or more 13 straight times but barely seems part of the conversation. If you want to play in the NCAA tournament, go to Vanderbilt. It's that simple.<br><br>A lot of preseason polls have the Commodores somewhere in the teens. Even though it's a good recruiting class, the big questions are with the veterans. If junior guard Christina Foggie has another big year like last year, and if 5-4 junior point guard Jasmine Lister can keep her turnovers down (176 assists, 115 turnovers), then watch out! Coach Melanie Balcomb is extended to 2017.<br><br>#17: <b>West Virginia</b>: With the Mountaineers ready to step into the turbulent waters of the Big Twelve, don't be surprised if West Virginia swims to the top. Despite losing key players to graduation the previous season, West Virginia finished 11-5 in the Big East with only losses to Notre Dame (tournament) and Stanford (second round, NCAA) slowing them down. Given the recruiting outlook, West Virginia might prove a thorn in the side to the traditional Big Twelve powers, ready to upset someone along the way.<br><br>Seniors Asya Bussie and Ayana Dunning were expected to lead the way this season but Bussie recently suffered a knee injury, creating doubts about West Virginia's chances this season. The question is who will be the breakout star among the freshmen. Will it be G Darius Faulk or W Bria Holmes? Or both?<br><br>#18: <b>Georgia Tech</b>: Head coach MaChelle Joseph's goal had always been to be the best Division I women's team in Georgia, and now she has a legitimate right to claim the title. She's might turn Atlanta into a basketball powerhouse. Last year the Yellow Jackets went to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time. <br><br>The Yellow Jackets were forced to vacate arena last season, hurting their attendance - but for 2012-13 a new arena opens, the McCamish Pavilion. Home opener against Tennessee will be an inauguration in more ways than one, a baptism of fire for a very talented freshman class.<br><br>#19: <b>Purdue</b>: Every time I think of Purdue basketball, I think of Churchill's quote about a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Will F Drew Mingo - now in her sixth year with the Boilermakers - have an MVP-type season or will the injury bug bite again? Is the bench any good? Will the team be better than last year's Big Ten tournament champs and advance past the second round, or will they take two steps back? With this team, it's very hard to tell.<br><br>F/C Taylor Manuel and F Joslyn Massey - prime freshmen - are also enigmas. If Mingo gets hurt - Purdue is being very ginger with her practice time - will the freshmen be forced to carry the load or will they have the opportunity to learn from the very veteran vets? Rebuilding year or push-through year? Your guess is as good as mine.<br><br>#20: <b>LSU</b>: The new look Lady Tigers under head coach Nikki Caldwell in her first season looked better than the previous year, making it to the second round of the NCAA tourney. Her team wasn't known for its offensive firepower - Caldwell wasted no time in the off-season, acting as an assistant coach for the USA under-18 team team as they won the FIBA gold medal. She might have spent that time figuring out what she was going to do about the loss of F LaSondra Barrett, who scored 20.5 percent of the team's total points.<br><br>I doubt that Caldwell is worried - she cooked up a recruiting class ranked #20 by ESPN Hoopgurlz which includes guards Danielle Ballard and Kuaneshia Baker. It might take a while to become a power in the SEC, however, given that Tennessee, Texas A&M and Kentucky might have their own opinions. The question of whether or not Caldwell could be tempted to take the job at Tennessee if it was offered...well, who knows?<br><br>#21:<b> Texas</b>: The Gail Goestenkors experiment is now over in Texas. People claimed that the Longhorns were ranked too high last year as the #15 best women's basketball program and they might have been justified. Attendance has dropped every year since 2009, a fall from the mid eighties when they led the country in home attendance. After an 18-13 finish and going 8-10 in the conference, something had to change.<br><br>Will the Longhorn Network help the Texas's women's basketball program? It couldn't hurt. But Texas goes back to the Conradt Era with the hire of Karen Aston, a former Conradt assistant. Goestenkors's final gift to the Longhorns was 6-7 post player Imani Stafford, the great Pam McGee's daughter. But the triumphs that Stafford and G Empress Davenport bring - both signed under Goestenkors - are destined to be claimed by others.<br><br>#22: <b>Ohio State</b>: Ohio State is the example of a program that has never really been able to cash in. Despite having the Big Ten Player of the Year and WNBA Draft pick Samanatha Prahalis and a 25-7 record they best they could do last year was a #8 seed in the NCAAs despite being in the Top 20 nationally after going 1-1 in the Big Ten Tournament. (The NCAA Selection Committee knew what they were doing, it seems, after Florida administered the coup de grace.)<br><br>Jim Foster will go to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, but at Ohio State his teams have never gotten past the Sweet Sixteen despite his win percentages. All his players earn plaudits in the classroom at least. He'll probably be at Ohio State until he retires but fans are waiting for the Buckeyes to stop being on the outside looking in. G Tayler Hill will be another top WNBA Draft Pick, but what comes after that?<br><br>#23: <b>Georgia</b>: Georgia, a #4 seed in the Raleigh Region last year, bumped into giant killer Marist and lost by six points in the first round. But this is a squad that really only loses one starter from the previous season, and will contend even in the tough SEC.<br><br>They'll pick up PG Marjorie Butler and W Shacobia Barbee as freshmen this year. Both of these players are from Tennessee, so in addition to five Georgia players on the roster head coach Andy Landers has three from Tennessee. The Lady Bulldogs have a web presence -<a target="_blank" href="http://www.coachandylanders.com"> coachandylanders.com</a> has been around since at least last year - and for a state that has traditionally only given a damn about football Georgia has averaged about 4000 per home game over the last four years.<br><br>#24: <b>Virginia</b>: Last season, the quarterfinals of WNIT were a nice warmup for the Joanne Boyle era - but the base will want more than that. They'll want to see an NCAA appearance and a return back to the glory years that will be difficult in a stacked ACC.<br><br>The Cavaliers lose lead scorer Arianna Moorer and lead rebounder Chelsea Shine to graduation, and senior guard Lexie Gerson is out for the season with a hip injury. PG China Crosby went out with an ACL last year, so freshmen such as Faith Randolph will have to shine right away. <br><br>#25: <b>Georgetown</b>: When Terry Williams-Flournoy coached for Georgetown, she said that she had to sell the Georgetown degree and the success of the program because there wasn't much left to sell. Can't sell the bandbox of a gym or their poor attendance. <br><br>Now assistant Keith Brown takes over at the program. He can probably pick up the selling duties because he was head of recruiting for the Hoyas, but he doesn't have Boo Williams as a brother. He does, however, have a great honeymoon as senior G Sugar Rodgers remains on the squad (and will probably go in the first round in the 2013 WNBA Draft). Georgetown will be hoping for a fifth straight 20+ win season, and guard Katie McCormick and wing Logan Battle - top 100 players both - join the squad this season.</p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/1/3513710/ncaa-womens-basketball-top-100-programs-11-25James Bowman2012-11-01T08:02:47-04:002012-11-01T08:02:47-04:00How do basketball recruits make their decisions?
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<p>With the nation's top recruit narrowing her choices to Tennessee and Louisville before making a final decision this week and the Kaela Davis recruiting saga rumored to be coming to a close, we turn our attention to recruiting. Obviously, a good school has good recruits, but what is it that <em>recruits</em> look for? How do basketball players make their decisions? </p> <p>If a coach could figure out the secret to a recruit's mind, they could write their own checks.</p>
<p>Every school has a recruiting coordinator whose job it is to sell a school to a perspective recruit. A school could start with a database of as high as 1000 players and begin to whittle that list down to maybe two dozen serious prospects. But every school knows that when they make their calls, there are other schools out there who want those same players.<br><br>It can be nasty sometimes. There have already been many articles written about coaches trying to cast enemy programs in the category of "lesbian coach/lesbian program" if they suspect parents might be homophobes. Maya Moore's choice of Connecticut started a cold war between Tennessee and Connecticut which still hasn't thawed (even with Moore's graduation) where Tennessee reported Connecticut to the NCAA for Connecticut giving Moore a tour of the ESPN facilities - a secondary violation. (Want to start a flame war on a Tennessee/UConn message board? Mention the words "Maya Moore", "Tennessee" and "Connecticut" all in the same sentence.) <br><br>National Champion Baylor was put on probation by the NCAA - a reduction in scholarships - as the result of impermissible text messages and phone calls sent by the program and impermissible contact between Baylor staff and the family of superstar Brittney Griner (Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey's daughter was on the same AAU team with Griner). Muffet McGraw, head coach at Notre Dame, said<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wndu.com/sports/headlines/Live-with-Irish-womens-basketball-star-Skylar-Diggins-173794721.html"> in an interview regarding their title game loss to Baylor</a>. "I think for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was what happened after and what came out after, I think it made it harder to swallow." Clearly, McGraw had Baylor's alleged recruiting violations in the back of her mind.<br><br>Clearly, every school looks for an edge, and if schools don't cross the line they know exactly where that line is and how close they can get to it. But how do players figure out which school they're going to go to? <br><br><b>Interviews and models</b><br><br>There isn't much written about how basketball players decide on a school but a lot has been written about how football players decide. More than likely, this is because of greater fan interest and the greater financial potential of having a working model. There are a lot of differences between college football players and women's basketball players to say the least, but the football recruiting process might provide some insight.<br><br>Economists at Mercer University - Mike DuMond, Allen Lynch and Jennifer Platania - <a target="_blank" href="http://ssbea.mercer.edu/recruiting.htm">made the attempt to predict where highly ranked football players would sign</a>. They built a predictive model that had a 71 percent success rate, based on the choices of approximately 3300 football players made between 2002 and 2004. A large array of factors was built into their model, and they could determine which of these factors had great predictive significance and which did not.<br><br>Factors <b>NOT</b> having great predictive significance were:</p>
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<li>Graduation rate</li>
<li>Number of Bowl Championship Series (BCS) appearances</li>
<li>Roster depth at a recruited player's positions</li>
<li>Numbers of players who go on to the pros</li>
<li>Number of national championship victories</li>
</ul>
<p>The last one is particularly surprising. <br><br>Factors having great predictive significance were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Whether the athlete made an "official visit" to a specific college </li>
<li>Whether the school is in a BCS conference </li>
<li>The distance from the high school athlete’s hometown to a specific school </li>
<li>Whether the recruit is in the same state as a specific school</li>
<li>The final AP Ranking of a specific school in the previous year of competition </li>
<li>The number of conference titles a school has recorded in recent years</li>
<li>Whether the school is currently under a "bowl ban" for violating NCAA rules </li>
<li>The current number of scholarship reductions a school faces for violating NCAA rules </li>
<li>The size of the team’s stadium (measured in terms of seating capacity)</li>
<li>Whether the school has an on-campus stadium </li>
<li>The current age of the team’s stadium</li>
</ul>
<p>Oddly enough, scholarship reductions were a <i>positive</i> factor, not a negative factor. Recruits knew that with reduced scholarships, there would be less competition for positions and playing time, so Baylor's reduction in scholarships might not hurt them that much. <br><br>If we had the data in women's basketball, we could attempt to do something similar. Unfortunately, gathering such data would be a volunteer effort like most things in women's basketball.<br><br><b>Distance</b><br><br>Note that distance was listed as one of the factors above. I looked at the top prospects from Hoopgurlz/ESPN for the classes of 2012-15 and broke them down by state.</p>
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<td class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" height="20" width="64"><b>State</b></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 74pt;" width="99"><b>Recruit Count</b></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(TX)</td>
<td align="right">33</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(CA)</td>
<td align="right">29</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(GA)</td>
<td align="right">24</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(FL)</td>
<td align="right">22</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(MD)</td>
<td align="right">17</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(OH)</td>
<td align="right">12</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(TN)</td>
<td align="right">12</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(AZ)</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(NY)</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(NY)</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(PA)</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(IL)</td>
<td align="right">10</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(NJ)</td>
<td align="right">10</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(VA)</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(MI)</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(NC)</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(KY)</td>
<td align="right">7</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(SC)</td>
<td align="right">7</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(IN)</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(WA)</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(MN)</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(MO)</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(OR)</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(AL)</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(AR)</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(CO)</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(IA)</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(DC)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(LA)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(MS)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(NE)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(OK)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(WI)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(WV)</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(CT)</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(KS)</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(MA)</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">(UT)</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<p><br><br>This map does not line up the way you'd think it would by population of state. If the order went strictly by state population, California should have had the largest number of prime recruits but it appears that Texas - second in population - has the most basketball talent. New York is third in state population but is tied for eighth in prime talent. Maryland might be 19th in state population, but it is a basketball paradise, fifth in overall talent.<br><br>Baylor, Tennessee, and Stanford should all be in good positions - they are all located in states where there is a lot of homegrown talent. However, not every basketball power is located in a state with a lot of basketball talent. It is a tribute to Connecticut that they are one of the best programs in the country despite their home state having a (relative) dearth of talent - the reach of UConn is far and wide. The same for Notre Dame, where out of the 309 prospects on the list, only six were from the state of Indiana. As for programs like Utah - with just one home-grown prospect on the list - their work becomes that much more difficult.<br><br>In states where there is more than one program, head coaches know that they have to establish themselves as the top program. This was a goal of MaChelle Joseph at Georgia Tech, to play in-state schools and beat them. The Georgia-Georgia Tech game was a given because the schools are traditional rivals but Georgia Tech usually has a school like Kennesaw State (this year) or Mercer or Georgia State on the schedule. Joseph's goal is to make Georgia Tech the school of choice for any Georgia-born prospect.<br><br><b>The campus visit</b><br><br>Travis Destache at the University of Wisconsin-Stout<a target="_blank" href="http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/lib/thesis/2009/2009destachet.pdf"> researched the most important factors in college choice among Wisconsin football players</a>. (The only Division I football program in Wisconsin is at Wisconsin-Madison.) He wanted to know the answers to three questions?</p>
<ul>
<li>Which factors influenced choice of schools among respondents?</li>
<li>Which factors of a campus visit were most important among respondents?</li>
<li>Is there a difference between recruits from small schools and recruits from large schools in how they make their choices?</li>
</ul>
<p>Of particular interest is the second question - the campus visit. The campus visit is one of the most important parts of a potential recruit's decision making. With the pressure on recruits to make their decisions earlier and earlier, many sign their letters of intent before an official visit but I suspect most wait until after the official visit. An official visit is an all-expenses paid (within reason) visit by a recruit to a school, a forty-eight hour period where she can see the campus, meet the team, talk to the coaches, and experience a glimpse of campus life, all in an attempt by a school to seal the deal.<br><br>According to Destache, the most important factors of a campus visit were (in descending order):</p>
<ul>
<li>Interaction with coaching staff</li>
<li>One-on-one meeting with the head coach</li>
<li>Interaction with team members</li>
<li>Tour of football facilities</li>
<li>Tour of campus</li>
<li>Visiting facilities related to your major</li>
<li>Meeting with academic advisor</li>
<li>Meeting with faculty in your major</li>
<li>Meeting with strength coach</li>
<li>Experiencing the social life of the college</li>
<li>Viewing dormitories</li>
</ul>
<p>A standard deviation was also taken to indicate how much consensus there was in the answers. "Interaction with the coaching staff" had the lowest standard deviation, indicating that the respondents were in close agreement on its relative importance. "Tour of football facilities" was second and "tour of campus" was third.<br><br>Oddly enough, "one on one meeting with the head coach" had a very high standard deviation - although in general it was the second most important factor, there was more variation among individual respondents on how important it was. One theory might be that players might have different expectations for their one-on-one meeting, or if the rest of the coaching staff is friendly and supportive, that might be enough to sway a recruit. Of course, the high variation means that for some players, the results of the one-on-one meeting might be the prime deciding factor.<br><br>Looking at the numbers for recruits from both large schools and small schools, there doesn't seem to be much difference in the importance of the factors listed above.<br><br><b>Pipelines</b><br><br>One goal of a coach is to have a recruiting resource, a person or place one can go to in order to get quality players. Coaches do this in different ways. Some establish good relationships with high schools. Others have an alumni pipeline, where a player can be recommended by an influential alum who knows his or her stuff. <br><br>Other schools have international pipelines - for some reason these coaches have a connection which allows them to convince foreign-born players to attend their schools. These players might have American parents who live overseas and those players might already have experience in European youth club basketball. Some, however, might be true foreign players with a limited English language background. <br><br>Georgia Tech has been particularly fortunate in picking up players from Sweden. They have Danielle Hamilton-Carter and Frida Fogdemark, two Swedish players. Last year Slovakian player Tjasa Gortnar also played for the Yellow Jackets.<br><br>Some players get their pipelines in other ways. You might not know that Auburn head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy's brother is Boo Williams, a man who certainly knows his way around AAU girls basketball. If he doesn't provide players, I'm sure that brother and sister might have conversations about where to find good players. <br><br>Various AAU squads are also great pipelines - there are definitely AAU teams which are good year after year after year and if a coaches get along well with each other, who is to say what might happen? There are also AAU tournament showcase events that are must-see locations not only to evaluate talent, but to network.<br><br>Many AAU tournaments are sponsored by various shoe companies - Nike, Adidas, Reebok. On the men's basketball side, some schools are known as "Nike schools" or "Adidas school" and various AAU coaches/shoe company personnel get a strong say as to who goes where - even to the point of making it clear that if you're from an Adidas school you're really not welcome at the Nike tournament. <br><br>Women's basketball, however, seems to be free of much of the shady shenanigans associated with men's basketball recruiting. On the other hand, as the women's game becomes more prominent everyone is predicting encroachment into a system that is perceived to be mostly on the up and up.</p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/1/3584592/ncaa-womens-basketball-recruiting-georgia-tech-machelle-josephJames Bowman2012-10-31T08:00:05-04:002012-10-31T08:00:05-04:00Top 100 Programs in DI women's BB: #26-40
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<p>This entry in the list of Swish Appeals Top 100 Programs in Division I women's college basketball looks at the teams ranked #26-40 and discusses which stat can mean the difference between making a tournament and not.</p> <p>There are a few areas where a college program should be able to control its own destiny; the goal is that any ranking of a good women's college basketball program be limited to those areas, and nowhere else.</p>
<p>It should put a good product on the court. It should be able to draw fans. It should get benchmark wins. It should do well in the post-season. It should get the most well-known recruits. And there is no way a college program should be able to put a brave face on things - either it succeeds in these areas, or it fails.<br><br>The problem with any metric, however, is that once people know that a metric is used to evaluate something the first response is find a way to bend that metric to their own purposes. In the HBO hit series "The Wire" they called it <i>juking the stats.</i> In order to boost the rate of solved crimes, police departments look at unsolved felonies and rewrite them as misdemeanors or get the complainants to drop the charges. In order to boost money to schools, schools round up truants - but only during the days when the state takes attendance. In order to boost test performance scores, schools teach to the test. If it isn't an eponymous law, it ought to be: "If success depends on reaching a benchmark, the social pressure to find loopholes will end up with the benchmark redefined or reduced to meaninglessness."<br><br>It would seem that the stats one uses to measure a women's basketball program can't be juked. A win is a win and a loss is a loss. Either you have a good enough record of success to be invited to the post-season, or you don't. <a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/luke_winn/09/27/schedule-strength/index.html">But a recent article by Luke Winn at Sports Illustrated</a> discusses how some smart coaches are doing just that.<br><br><b>RPI</b><br><br>When the NCAA Selection Committee gets together to determine which teams get invited to the Big Dance in March, they are given something like a cheat sheet on each team. (A mock-up of cheat sheets can be found on <a target="_blank" href="http://wbbstate.com">wbbstate.com</a>.) The sheet categorizes all of the team's wins by RPI, or "Ratings Percentage Index". The most basic measure of RPI is as follows:<br><br><b>RPI = (win percentage* 0.25) + (opponents win percentage * 0.50) + (opponent's opponents win percentage * 0.25)</b><br><br>In short, a team is judged based on winning games, playing opponents who also win games, and playing opponents who play other teams who also win games. The triple-weight of RPI should cover any attempt to evade the system by playing patsies.<br><br>A digression: the roles on a coaching staff are loosely delineated as follows. There is a head coach who is usually in charge of Xs and Os. There is a recruiting coordinator who is charge of bringing talent into the program. And there is someone whose job it is to schedule games. This is sometimes a lower ranked coach, and the process of finding games takes place in a rather<i> ad hoc</i> manner. There are message boards - I won't tell you where - where coaches post looking for opponents. Good programs sometimes have to offer cash incentives (it's perfectly legal) to those Bluebell Girls Academy schools that are going to come to Big State U and get thumped for two hours. It's a good deal for everyone - everyone has a place to play, lesser programs get rewarded and deals can sometimes be arranged for home-and-away series that fill a hole not just in this year's schedule but the following year's as well.<br><br>The best schedulers, however, know how to work the RPI game - they know how to force that mathematical formula to sing sweet music to the NCAA or WNIT selection committee. How do they do it?<br><br>1) They figure how many conference wins they're going to need to be taken seriously. That can't be helped. You need to know how good you are now before you can begin tinkering with perception. Connecticut and Baylor don't need any RPI help.<br><br>2) Note that this is a three part formula. You might not be able to master all of the parts of the formula, but you might be able to swing two out of three. You obviously need to win games, so you can't give up part one. So let's abandon one of the other two parts.<br><br>2a) In this case, we'll give up the second part in favor of the third. A good scheduler will schedule opponents that he thinks will have a lousy year but will have a great strength of schedule. The best teams to schedule are the doormats in power conferences. They will have a high "opponent's opponents win percentage" and you have a good chance of beating them - you might even want to take the chance of playing them at their home.<br><br>Obviously, you're not looking to play teams in your own conference. So who were the best bets in enemy conferences to play?</p>
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<td class="xl64" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 116pt;" height="20" width="154"><b>School</b></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 108pt;" width="144"><b>Conference</b></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>Record</b></td>
<td class="xl63" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>SOS</b></td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UCLA</td>
<td>Pac-12</td>
<td class="xl65">14-16</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Illinois</td>
<td>Big Ten</td>
<td class="xl65">11-19</td>
<td align="right">22</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Missouri</td>
<td>Big Twelve</td>
<td class="xl65">13-18</td>
<td align="right">26</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Boston College</td>
<td>ACC</td>
<td class="xl65">7-23</td>
<td align="right">34</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Marquette</td>
<td>Big East</td>
<td class="xl65">14-17</td>
<td align="right">35</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Auburn</td>
<td>Southeastern</td>
<td class="xl65">13-17</td>
<td align="right">40</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Xavier</td>
<td>Atlantic 10</td>
<td class="xl65">8-20</td>
<td align="right">56</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Northeastern</td>
<td>Colonial</td>
<td class="xl65">8-22</td>
<td align="right">59</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Portland</td>
<td>West Coast</td>
<td class="xl65">12-20</td>
<td align="right">84</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Indiana State</td>
<td>MVC</td>
<td class="xl65">15-16</td>
<td align="right">92</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Western Kentucky</td>
<td>Sun Belt</td>
<td class="xl65">9-21</td>
<td align="right">98</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">East Carolina</td>
<td>CUSA</td>
<td class="xl65">12-19</td>
<td align="right">110</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Buffalo</td>
<td>Mid-American</td>
<td class="xl65">4-22</td>
<td align="right">116</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">St. Francis (PA)</td>
<td>Northeast</td>
<td class="xl65">14-16</td>
<td align="right">119</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Colorado State</td>
<td>Mountain West</td>
<td class="xl65">13-17</td>
<td align="right">126</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">CS-Bakersfield</td>
<td>Independent</td>
<td class="xl65">7-22</td>
<td align="right">131</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Charleston</td>
<td>Southern</td>
<td class="xl65">7-23</td>
<td align="right">133</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">East Tennessee St.</td>
<td>Atlantic Sun</td>
<td class="xl65">8-22</td>
<td align="right">137</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">North Dakota State</td>
<td>Summit</td>
<td class="xl65">11-20</td>
<td align="right">149</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Hawai'i</td>
<td>WAC</td>
<td class="xl65">11-19</td>
<td align="right">152</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Milwaukee</td>
<td>Horizon<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
</td>
<td class="xl65">9-21</td>
<td align="right">154</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Dartmouth</td>
<td>Ivy</td>
<td class="xl65">6-22</td>
<td align="right">167</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Loyola (MD)</td>
<td>Metro</td>
<td class="xl65">13-17</td>
<td align="right">168</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Arkansas-Pine Bluff</td>
<td>SWAC</td>
<td class="xl65">1-29</td>
<td align="right">174</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">UC-Riverside</td>
<td>Big West</td>
<td class="xl65">5-24</td>
<td align="right">192</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Sacramento State</td>
<td>Big Sky</td>
<td class="xl65">13-18</td>
<td align="right">194</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">MD-Eastern Shore</td>
<td>MEAC</td>
<td class="xl65">12-18</td>
<td align="right">202</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas-San Antonio</td>
<td>Southland</td>
<td class="xl65">8-21</td>
<td align="right">215</td>
</tr>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Binghamton</td>
<td>America East</td>
<td class="xl65">13-18</td>
<td align="right">219</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Gardner-Webb</td>
<td>Big South</td>
<td class="xl65">4-25</td>
<td align="right">226</td>
</tr>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Colgate</td>
<td>Patriot</td>
<td class="xl65">8-22</td>
<td align="right">250</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Austin Peay</td>
<td>Ohio Valley</td>
<td class="xl65">9-22</td>
<td align="right">259</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Texas-Pan American</td>
<td>Great West</td>
<td class="xl65">13-17</td>
<td align="right">286</td>
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<p><br><br>2b) But even better opponents to schedule are teams that have an inflated RPI. Luke Winn calls it the "exploitable gap". How does a team have an inflated RPI? These are teams that are forced to play a great percentage of their games against weak teams - they are basically the power teams of the weakest conferences. They have high win percentages - and thus excel in the first part of RPI - but against weak competition.<br><br>A smart scheduler will look at who is going to excel in a weak conference. (This will be explained by saying that "we played eight teams that went to the postseason last year" but they all came from the Patriot League, MEAC, Northeast, Big South, and Ivy Leagues.) Find teams that can pick up 20 wins in a weak conference, and play those teams. That's an even better boost than 2a) is. You can win the game if you're smart, and your opponents win percentage will be good as well.<br><br>3) One thing that you never want to do is play weak teams. These are teams with an RPI at less than 250 - they stink and their opponents stink, too. These are the empty calories of RPI, and the NCAA selection committee will not look kindly on these junk food games. According to Luke Winn, a college team is far better off scheduling home games against non-Division I teams than against teams ranked at below 250 in RPI - the reason being is that only Division I teams are counted in RPI and losing to a good DII team won't kill your RPI.<br><br>Let's take a look at the bottom ten power conference teams in RPI last season. Did they follow Rule #3, or not? The NCAA Selection Committee will be looking at non-conference games, since a Big East team can't control for having to play Pittsburgh twice a year.</p>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt; width: 116pt;" height="20" width="154"><b><br></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 108pt;" width="144"><b>Final RPI</b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b><br></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>1-50 NC</b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>251+ NC</b></td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b><br></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>NCAA seed</b></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
<td><br></td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Clemson</td>
<td align="right">245</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Virginia Tech</td>
<td align="right">223</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Indiana</td>
<td align="right">217</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Boston College</td>
<td align="right">203</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Pittsburgh</td>
<td align="right">197</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Mississippi</td>
<td align="right">190</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">7</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Seton Hall</td>
<td align="right">181</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Alabama</td>
<td align="right">175</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Wisconsin</td>
<td align="right">165</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Arizona</td>
<td align="right">162</td>
<td><br></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><br><br><br>Note that in the majority of cases, these low power conference teams made the mistake of scheduling too many weak sisters. Ole Miss scheduled *seven* non-conference opponents with an RPI of below 250. Even if they had done well in 2011-12, that schedule would have doomed them in the eyes of the NCAA selection committee. <br><br>Now go over to the other side of the table and look how the big girls do it:</p>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt; width: 116pt;" height="20" width="154"><b></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 108pt;" width="144"><b>Final RPI</b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>1-50 NC</b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>251+ NC</b></td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b></b></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>NCAA seed</b></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Baylor</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Stanford</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Connecticut</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">Notre Dame</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
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<td align="right">8</td>
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<p><br><br>The best teams avoid scheduling any weak teams. There is nothing to prove for Tennessee scheduling the likes of NJIT. Tennessee and Texas A&M had going for them the fact that they didn't even play a team with an RPI below 200 last year.<br><br><b>Can we figure out who is best at scheduling?</b><br><br>Theoretically, we could run the numbers - if we had a computer programmed with the right data - and see if program out there knows how to beat the system.<br><br>For example, take step 2b) above - playing against good teams from bad conferences. I chose the teams from the SWAC, Ohio Valley, Atlantic Sun, Patriot, MEAC, Big South and Independents that all had winning records. The teams are listed with their record and final RPI.<br><br>Howard (24-9, 55)<br>Florida Gulf Coast (29-3, 60)<br>Hampton (26-5, 63)<br>Liberty (24-9, 95)<br>Tennessee-Martin (23-9, 104)<br>Eastern Illinois (22-9, 121)<br>Stetson (23-11, 123)<br>Coppin State (20-12, 132)<br>American (23-8, 138)<br>Florida A&M (22-8, 146) <br>Mississippi Valley State (15-13, 150)<br>High Point (20-13, 153)<br>Holy Cross (19-15, 159)<br>Seattle (20-12, 160)<br>SIU-Edwardsville (18-12, 166)<br>Winthrop (18-13, 176)<br>Lehigh (17-13, 186)<br>Navy (18-14, 188)<br>Campbell (18-12, 189)<br>Alabama A&M (17-12, 196)<br><br>There are some good teams here - Florida Gulf Coast went to the NCAA Tournament - but undoubtedly all of them suffer some degree of RPI inflation. Were there any teams that scheduled these opponents regularly?<br><br><b>There are two teams that scheduled at least three of these opponents</b>. One team is from a power conference and finished with a 23-10 record last year. Its final rank in RPI was #29, but it finished in seventh place in its conference.<br><br>The other team finished with an RPI of #46. However, it came from what we would call a high mid-major and finished in fourth place, which is usually where high mid-majors get overlooked for the post-season. This team made the mistake of scheduling three sub-250 RPI non-conference opponents, just like the one above it.<br><br>The first team played Tennessee-Martin, High Point, and Alabama A&M all last year.<br>The second team played Florida Gulf Coast, Liberty, Lehigh, and Navy.<br><br><i>Give up?</i> The first team was <b>Vanderbilt</b>, which made it to a #7 seed in the NCAA Tournament and got as far as the second round. The second team, despite its #46 RPI, didn't get a nod for the NCAA tournament. That team was <b>Richmond</b>, which was one of several Atlantic Ten teams to get a WNIT bid and made it as far as the second round.<br><br><b>The theory in practice</b><br><br>Men's college basketball has a wealth of statistics that are not available to women's college ball. The reason is that men's ball is a much bigger game in terms of money, and stat crunchers don't see it as cost-effective to devote time to the women's game. Ken Pomeroy puts out his own rankings of college teams which recalculate non-conference strength of schedule and - in the words of the SI article - "which creates a Pythagorean winning percentage based on opponents' adjusted efficiency". Coaches who subscribe to Pomeroy's stat service can see which teams are weaker than their RPIs indicated, and step into the "exploitable gap".<br><br>Of course, you'd have to have some luck on your side. With reciprocal agreements, you might be locked into playing certain teams a couple of years from now. If you're St. Joseph's, you'll be required to play all the Big Five Philadelphia teams. And if your forecasts of the winners of the lower conferences are wrong, you could set yourself up for a lot of pain.<br><br>Even so, scheduling might be more of a science than just calling someone and saying "wanna play"? When you're a college basketball program, your survival depends on exploiting every available opportunity. A good schedule might mean the difference between getting an NCAA bid or not, or between getting a sweet #4 seed as opposed to a more dangerous #5 seed. As every college head coach knows, even the little things mean a lot.</p>
<p><br>#26: <b>St. John's</b>: Joe Tartamella takes over in Queens for Kim Barnes Arico, his very first head coaching job. Previous HC took Red Storm to first-ever Sweet Sixteen, a tough act to follow. Sandra Udobi-Ofogu, signed by Arico, will be there this season along with four other starters. <br><br>#27: <b>Gonzaga</b>: The best mid-major program in the United States. Kelly Graves loses Courtney Vandersloot, #3 pick in WNBA Draft, might find it hard to return to national polls. Zags are 42-2 in West Coast Conference over last three years. Three straight years of at least the Sweet Sixteen - the team that no one wants to play.<br><br>#28: <b>Iowa</b>: Hawkeyes make it to NCAA but fall short of a 20-win season and get a first round exit. Wing Alexa Castanek (class of '13) has already verballed to Iowa, had work done on her knee in June. Bad mojo, two players ended careers early with injuries last year, C Bethany Doolittle arrested in June for public intoxication and providing false information. <a target="_blank" href="http://web.iowawomensbasketball.com/Dev/">Iowa women have a new basketball website.</a><br><br>#29: <b>Florida State</b>: Sue Semrau decided to stay in Tallahassee. A disappointing 14-17 year for the 'Noles. Cierra Bravard is gone and playing in the Liga Feminina in Spain. Even with Semrau in for the long haul, selling anything but football at Florida State is going to be difficult and I don't see her there past April 2015.<br><br>#30: <b>Middle Tennessee State</b>: Four consecutive NCAA appearances for Blue Raiders. MTSU gets commitment of G China Dow and picks up 6-6 post JUCO player Jeniece Johnson, and none of their starters graduated in the off-season.<br><br>#31: <b>UCLA</b>: First year of Cori Close's tenure ends with disappointing 14-16 mark. California sunshine is still sweet for Bruins, freshman G Nirra Fields scored 20 points in McDonald's All-Star Game and was named Ms. Basketball of California and Parade All-American. Touted freshman G Lauren Holiday's brother Jrue is starting PG for Philadelphia 76ers.<br><br>#32: <b>Texas Tech</b>: Lady Raiders started the season 14-0 and finished it 7-14, finishing next to last in the Big Twelve (next to departing Missouri). Tech wins its 800th game in women's basketball, picks up Minta Spears, who scored 33.7 ppg for Bullard High School.<br><br>#33: <b> Penn State</b>: Head coach Coquese Washington was asked by Michigan in the off-season but will stay at Penn State. No wonder Washington in demand - finished at #9 in final ESPN Coaches poll, NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance, Big Ten regular season title. The Lady Lions are roaring again!<br><br>#34: <b>Miami (FL)</b>: The Hurricanes cracked four digits in attendance, were a Top Five ranked team at one time last year and Shenise Johnson was the #5 pick in the WNBA Draft. As Katie Meyer says "We're relevant", but now Miami has to <i>stay </i>relevant - that will be tough. Recruiting still seems to be working with F Keyona Hayes and C Macy Keen leading the recruiting pack.<br><br>#35: <b>DePaul</b>: Head coach Doug Bruno earned an Olympic gold medal in the off-season, took team to NCAA for ninth consecutive year months earlier. Injuries forced Bruno to rely on his "Magnificent Seven"; six of them will be back for 2012-13.<br><br>#36: <b> James Madison</b>: Impressive year takes James Madison all the way to the WNIT Finals. Freshman guard Angela Mickens and future G Chania Ray (class of '14) should help the Dukes dominate the CAA for a long time.<br><br>#37: <b>Oklahoma State</b>: Cowgirls finished an emotional year - they lost coach Kurt Budke mid-season - by winning the WNIT title. Jim Littell to take OSU into the future, wing freshman Brittney Martin among top twenty recruits nationally according to ESPNU.<br><br>#38: <b>Wisconsin-Green Bay</b>: Matt Bollant - who led the Phoenix to a 148-19 record over five seasons - is off to Illinois, former coach Kevin Borseth (216-62 for UWGB) comes back. Four starters come back, Julie Wojta drafted at #18 in WNBA draft.<br><br>#39: <b>California</b>: First season under head coach Lindsey Gottlieb ends at 25-10, second round loss in NCAAs. Of eight players who started games last year, seven are back. F Kendall Waters joins the Golden Bears in 2013.<br><br>#40: <b> Dayton</b>: The Flyers won their first Atlantic 10 conference tournament and picked up their third straight NCAA appearance four months after losing 78-38 to UConn. Dayton had two players on the A-10 all-Rookie Team, including sophomore guard Andrea Hoover who was second in points per game on the team last season (10.0 ppg).</p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/31/3513638/top-100-womens-basketball-programs-26-40-rpiJames Bowman2012-10-30T08:00:05-04:002012-10-30T08:00:05-04:00Top 100 Programs in DI women's hoops: #41-70
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<p>This entry in the list of Swish Appeals Top 100 Programs in Division One women's college basketball looks at the teams ranked #41-70. But how come there are no non-DI schools on the list?</p> <p>In the entire SB Nation Universe, we are the only website devoted exclusively to women's basketball. Our mandate is the WNBA - the site motto is "For WNBA Fans" and the dropdown under WNBA lists that they have a site dedicated to the WNBA and to NCAA women's basketball fans - that's us.<br><br>However we do not write exclusively about those things. Sometimes, we've written about European basketball. I've written at least one article about high school basketball and really anything touching on the business of girls or women's basketball interests us. We occasionally (but rarely) write about the Division II, Division III and NAIA/JUCO schools that are their own universes of women's basketball - I'm sure their triumphs and tragedies are written about elsewhere but rarely here.<br><br>Which provokes a question: <i>were we wrong in limiting the list to Division I women's basketball</i>? Could there be a Division II or Division III program which is just as great as the Division I programs are?<br><br>(* * *)<br><br>One problem is that there is no way to compare Division I and Division II with each other directly. Division I and Division II teams will play each other during the year, but not often, usually in the very first games of the season. <br><br>The rule is that every team in the NCAA is allowed two exhibition games. A team gets to chose whether or not these games are<i> open</i> exhibition games or <i>closed</i> exhibitions, or one of each. (Divison I Manual, rules 17.3.5.3 (g)-(h).)<br><br>There's a difference. Open exhibitions are just that - they are open to the public and you sell tickets. These games can only be against Division II teams or lower (and can only be against four-year programs). The alternative is the closed exhibition. You play an actual Division I squad with actual Division I rules, but you are not allowed to promote your game in any way and can't sell tickets. (If there are no open exhibition games in your team's schedule, it could be that they're playing someone else - maybe even a big name team - but are just not telling you about it.)<br><br>You trade off the prospect of drumming up publicity and selling tickets and playing maybe an in-state team vs. the prospect of playing a team of your caliber off the books to get ready for the season. Each team approaches the issue in a different way.<br><br>What this means is that Division I vs. Division II data would be hard to get and if we could get it, it would be rather sparse. Even so, is there a Division II program that is in any way comparable to the top Division I programs? <br><br><b>What it was, was football</b><br><br>There is, however, a universe where a certain class of very competitive schools plays teams belonging to another class of schools which don't place as much emphasis on a sport.<br><br>That universe is football. And there are certain ranking and betting sites which will try to rank FBS (Division I) and FCS (formerly Division I-AA) teams on the same level. After all, if Georgia Tech is playing Presbyterian, you want to know what the accurate spreads should be, and as an FBS team plays fewer games overall its results against FCS teams might given some indication of a FCS team's strength.<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://realtimerpi.com">Realtimerpi.com</a> gives it a shot. Right now, the highest FBS ranked team is Old Domninion, at #72 among all FBS and all FCS teams combined. That puts Old Dominion ahead of Connecticut, Georgia Tech, and Kentucky. <br><br>This might seem a bit implausible, but <a target="_blank" href="http://%20http://cfbmatrix.com/college-football-spread-moneyline-gambling-odds-ncaa-modeling-cfbmatrix-predictions/2011-moneyline-and-spread-odds-matrix-guide/fcs-vs-fbs-just-the-facts/">one website states</a> that the winning percentage of FCS teams vs. FBS teams was 8.6 percent. At times, it was as low as 2 percent and as high as 14 percent between 2002 and 2010. <br><br><b>Do non-Division I teams beat Division I schools in women's basketball?</b><br><br>Getting a list of every Division I vs. non-Division I matchup is almost impossible. The best hope you have of such a list is to go to <a target="_blank" href="http://wbbstate.com">wbbstate.com</a> and look at the calendar of the previous season's games. I decided to look for games last year and see if I could find any case where a Division I women's basketball team lost to a lower division.<br><br>Surprisingly, this happened last year, and not only once. Non-Division I schools were playing Division I schools as late as February 14 of last season. <br><br>November 11 - <b>North Greenville 75, South Carolina-Upstate 57</b>. The biggest loss in 2011-12 by a Division I team to a non-Division I team by victory margin. It was a good year for North Greenville, who finished 20-9 and in third place in the Division II Conference Carolinas. South Carolina-Upstate must have been shaken up, as they lost their next five games and finished at 9-21 for the year.<br><br>November 12 - <b>Metro State 64, Nebraska-Omaha 61</b>. The Mavericks are still transitioning to the Summit League and played an odd mix of Division I and II teams. The winning Roadrunners finished 27-4 on the season and made it to the Elite Eight of the Division II tournament.<br><br>November 14 - <b>LSU-Shreveport 63, Louisiana-Lafayette 50</b>. The Ragin' Cajuns finished at 7-23 on the year. LSU-Shreveport plays only six sports in the NAIA but the Lady Pilots finished 25-8 and made it to the NAIA Division I National Tournament. <br><br>November 22 - <b>Palm Beach Atlantic 59, Bethune-Cookman 56</b>. Bethune-Cookman didn't do too bad, finishing 10-19 and 7-10 in the MEAC conference. The Sailfish, on the other hand, finished worse at 7-19. Division II Palm Beach were behind by double digits in the first half but closed to 31-30 at halftime and won in a photo finish, shooting 19-for-23 at the free throw line.<br><br>November 22 - <b>Belhaven University 56, Troy 53</b>. Troy's record was a horrible 2-26 and the home loss to Bellhaven was just one of an eight-game losing streak to start the season. Belhaven - an NAIA school that was only recently Belhaven College - had a much better season, finishing 26-7 and making it to the first round of the NAIA Division I National Tournament. A pair of free throws by Kiara Johnson with one second left sealed the deal. <br><br>November 25 - <b>Loyola-Louisiana 84, Northwestern State 80</b>. In a battle of Louisiana schools, the Lady Demons lost this round on the way to a 6-23 season. The Wolfpack - an NAIA Division I school - finshed 23-5 on the year and was another NAIA Division I Tournament participant. <br><br>December 19 - <b>Indianapolis 50, Cincinnati 43</b>. This was the only power conference team to lose a game to a team ranked from a lower division - one of the few blemishes on a 16-16 season where the Bearcats finished 6-10 in the Big East and went to the WNIT after four losing seasons.<br><br>It almost didn't happen, as a sudden opening appeared in the Bearcats schedule and they gave the Greyhounds a call to fill it. The Greyhounds made it to the Division II National Tournament with a 19-11 record.<br><br>January 2 - <b>Elizabeth City State 62, Maryland-Eastern Shore 55</b>. Elizabeth City State is an HBCU in North Carolina which plays in Division II. The Lady Hawks of UMES finished at 12-18 and 9-8 in the MEAC. Elizabeth City State's Lady Vikings finished at 13-14 on the year.<br><br>January 2 - <b>Wingate 69, College of Charleston 60</b>. The Cougars lost at home to Wingate in the middle of an eight game losing streak, and finished the season 7-23 with six of their wins coming in Southern Conference play. D-II Wingate - best known as the alma mater of Jesse Helms - closed the season at 24-8 and made it to the Sweet Sixteen of Division II.<br><br>January 19: <b>Concordia (NE) 68, Nebraska-Omaha 60</b>. Concordia is an NAIA Division II team, but what a team. They finished the season at 34-3 and made it all the way to the Final Four of the NAIA Division II National Tournament, ending the year with a #3 national ranking in NAIA Division II. <br><br>February 1: <b>Indiana Northwest 78, Chicago State 77</b>. Chicago State, barely a Division I school and playing in the Great West conference, lost a nail biter to Indiana Northwest. The Cougars finished the season at 6-24. Indiana Northwest - an NAIA Division II team - finished 19-11 but did not make the national tournament.</p>
<p>And last year wasn't a fluke. Just this Sunday, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kentstatesports.com/sports/wbkb/2012-13/releases/201210280gxgj3">Kent State lost to Gannon 70-61</a> to put their name on the list of Division I teams that will lose to non-Division I squads during the 2012-13 season.<br><br>(* * *)<br><br><b>The other factors</b><br><br>What is attendance like at non-Division I schools? How does their attendance compare to other teams on this list?<br><br>The leader in Division II attendance last season was <b>Northern State</b>, a school in Aberdeeen, South Dakota. They are generally ranked in the Top 10 in Division II attendance, with an average of 2,681 per game. That would be #44 in attendance among all NCAA women's basketball schools, with better home attendance than North Carolina, or Rutgers, or West Virginia.<br><br>The leader in Divsion III attendance last season was <b>Hope College</b>, just a few miles from Lake Michigan. They've led Division III in attendance for the last four years, averaging 1,343 per home game. Memphis - future Big East participant - only averaged 1,335 per home game, and that was the best they've done over four years. Northwestern only gets 1,270. Mighty USC? 1,238.<br><br>Recruiting is one of the other factors, and it is there that the favorable comparisons to Division I fall off. Take the Parade All-Americans, as prestigious a group of future women's college basketball players as you can get. Out of all of the players named since 2008, only one of those has foregone playing at a Division I university - Khadijah Carter was named a Parade All-American for 2012 and signed with Jacksonville Junior College.<br><br>Part of the problem that non-DI schools have in getting noteworthy recruits - or good recruits of any type for that matter - is that if word even got out that a DII was talking to any athlete early in the recruiting season, all it would take is a smart parent or coach to let everyone know. If the DI schools had any inclination that the young woman in question could actually play basketball, some DI schools would swoop down with an offer. There are a lot of recruits - too many - who feel that the cachet that comes with playing for a DI squad can't be passed up, even though you might win fewer games in four years at DI for a bad DI school than you'd win in one season in a top-rank DII school.<br><br><b>D2 and D3 schools on future lists?</b><br><br>A summary<br><br>* There really is no way to compare DI and non-DI schools directly, since they play each other so infrequently.<br>* A good non-DI school can beat a bad DI school - it happened more than once in 2011-12. Unfortunately, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule.<br>* Attendance at top DII and DIII schools compares favorably with DI schools. In fact, in some cases it is better than that of power conference schools.<br>* Recruiting, however, is dominated by the DI schools. The last time any WNBA Draft Pick came from a non-DI school was Johannah Leedham (pictured) who was born in England and played at DII Franklin Pierce, where she was the all-time DII scorer with 3050 points. She was drafted in the third round by the Connecticut Sun in 2010 but has never played pro ball in the United Staes.<br><br>So will we see non-DI schools on this list? The big hump to cross over is the first point of the summary - the schools simply exist in different worlds of basketball. But who knows? Maybe someday the NCAA will offer something like the FA Cup in England, where all NCAA women's basketball schools regardless of Division play in a massive one-off tournament. Until then, this list will be limited by practicality to Division I schools.</p>
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<p>#41: <b>South Carolina</b>: Head coach Dawn Staley gets Gamecocks to first 20-win season in nine years and sends them to the Sweet Sixteen - joined Women's Basketball HOF as player this summer. South Carolina loses top two scorers but a great recruiting class coming in led by PG Khadijah Sessions who averaged almost 30 ppg in her high school senior year.<br><br>#42: <b>Florida</b>: Gators knocked out in second round of SEC tournament but makes it to second round of NCAA. Gators will lose three starters but Jennifer George (12.8 ppg/8.8 rpg) enters senior year and waits for Oklahoma State 6-6 Vicky McIntyre, an Oklahoma State transfer who won't have to wait a year. Head coach Amanda Butler receives contract extension to 2017. <br><br>#43: <b>Nebraska</b>: Nebraska makes it to Top 20, but falls to Kansas in first round of NCAAs. Even so, almost stole a Big Ten Tourney title from Purdue in first Big Ten season, falling by four points. Will freshman PG Rachel Theriot be expected to produce right away? Team moves to new arena in 2013-14.<br><br>#44: <b>USC</b>: 18-12 season sees Jacki Gemelos and Briana Gilbreath both go in third round of WNBA Draft. However, Trojans get guard Jordan Adams, ranked #7 in country by Hoopgurlz as well as PG Brianna Barrett. USC has Duke, Texas A&M on schedule...and of course, Stanford. <br><br>#45: <b>Syracuse</b>: Fifth straight postseason, fourth straight WNIT appearance. Syracuse would like last year in Big East to finish with a bang. While Quentin Hillsman serves his second year as an assistant on the Netherlands U-18 team, he has the #6 Recruiting Class this year according to ESPN.<br><br>#46: <b>Kansas State</b>: The Wildcats lose five seniors including Jalana Childs (14.3 ppg) and two other starters in a season taking them to the second round of the NCAA. K-State building an impressive-looking new facility for basketball training to train future Manhattan recruits. <br><br>#47: <b>Marist</b>: Seventh straight tournament championships in the MAAC. Eight straight regular season championships. Nine straight 20+ win seasons. You can almost write out the MAAC's NCAA season invite before the season starts.<br><br>#48: <b>Michigan</b>: Kim Barnes Arico new head coach at Michigan after Kevin Borseth returns to Wisconsin-Green Bay. She wasted no time, already has Siera Thompson and Danielle Williams (both class of 13) in recruiting pipeline, KBA clearly intends to make Michigan a national power. Shannon Smith from UNC will transfer to Michigan.<br><br>#49: <b>Temple</b>: Owls final year in Atlantic 10; next year they fly off to Big East. Ninth straight 20 plus win season; no NCAA appearance but WNIT Sweet Sixteen. Four seniors graduate including two top scorers Shey Peddy and Kristen McCarthy who averaged 30.2 of team's 65.7 ppg last season. Tonya Cardoza looks for win #100 in Year Five.<br><br>#50: <b>Auburn</b>: Nell Fortner retires at Auburn after 13-17 season, Terri Williams-Flournoy comes to Auburn after making Georgetown a national power. Incoming 5-7 PG Chadarryl Clay recruited by Fortner. G Camille Glymph transfers to Michigan State.<br><br>#51: <b>Arkansas</b>: Head coach Tom Collen gets an extension to 2016 after a 24-9 record, made it to the second round of NCAAs and voted SEC Coach of the Year. F Jessica Jackson was offered a scholarship as a HS freshman, accepted in 2012 and will make it to team next year. However, Razorbacks lose C'eira Ricketts to graduation.<br><br>#52: <b>Marquette</b>: Terri Mitchell gets her 300th win in a disappointing 14-17 season. Tyler Summitt - Pat Summitt's son - gets his first assistant coaching job with Marquette. As guards coach, he might not get to work with recruit Ashley Santos right away - due to an ACL tear she suffered in January she might not be ready yet.<br><br>#53: <b> Xavier</b>: Amy Waugh's first season as a head coach ended with a frightening 8-20 record after being left with an empty cupboard among other catastrophes including the indefinite suspension of Lynette Holmes in January. Freshmen listed on roster might get a lot of playing time but Ce'Dra Evans diagnosed with diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and not cleared to play.<br><br>#54: <b>Princeton</b>: <i>Hold that Tiger!</i> Princeton wins third straight Ivy League title - four points away from making it to second round. Before the loss to K-State they won 17 straight. Wing player Vanessa Smith will come to Princeton in 2013.<br><br>#55: <b>Arizona State</b>: Disappointing year ends with Sun Devils losing to Pacific in first round of WNIT. Charli Turner Thorne returns from nine-month absence. OVC Freshman of the Year G Katie Hempen will be ready for 2013-14 season after transferring to ASU. <br><br>#56: <b>Fresno State</b>: Fresno State is now officially a member of the Mountain West. Reagan Pebley takes over from Utah State, Adrian Wiggins departed for (brief) stay at Mississippi. Four starters back including Ki-Ki Moore (16.8 ppg/7.2 rpg).<br><br>#57: <b>Kansas</b>: Junior Angel Goodrich took the Jayhawks to their first Sweet Sixteen appearance since 1998 and knocked Delaware and Elena Delle Donne out of the tournament. Lose only one senior, Carolyn Davis finishing up ACL rehab on left knee.<br><br>#58: <b>Bowling Green</b>: Falcons lose head coach Curt Miller to Indiana. Assistant coach Jennifer Roos steps into a team that has won 20+ games for nine straight seasons. Two other Falcon assistants, however, join Miller in Indiana.<br><br>#59: <b>Texas Christian</b>: Big Twelve is so tough that Horned Frogs - an excellent team - will probably be the conference doormat. Jada Butts will be joining TCU a year from now, but program with nine NCAA tournaments in last 12 years might find it hard to keep that alive in the Big Twelve.<br><br>#60: <b>Delaware</b>: Last year for Elena Delle Donne at Delaware, but where do Blue Hens go after she goes pro? EDD isn't the only starter they're going to lose to graduation, so this might be as good as it gets.<br><br>#61: <b>St. Bonaventure</b>: Bonnies get their first 30-win season and an NCAA visit after three WNIT appearances, go to the Sweet Sixteen. St. Bonaventure is second smallest school (by enrollment) to ever go to the Sweet Sixteen but while Jim Crowley gains an extension to 2017 he loses four seniors and recruiting coach.<br><br>#62: <b>Mississippi State</b>: Sharon Fanning-Otis retires at Mississippi State after 17 seasons (281-232), Vic Schaefer comes to the Lady Bulldogs from Texas A&M. 6-4 post Dominique Brooks signed under previous staff. Only one senior left on squad, leading scorers Diamber Johnson and Porsha Porter graduate.<br><br>#63: <b>Illinois State</b>: Redbirds go to WNIT, sixth straight postseason but streak of five 20 game win seasons comes to an end. Last senior class won 98 games over four seasons, leading scorer Katie Broadway graduates.<br><br>#64: <b>Wake Forest</b>: After winning 20 games for the second time in school history, Mike Petersen - the winningest coach in Wake Forest history - resigns after North Texas offers him a job. New head coach Jen Hoover only had one season as head coach at High Point, but the Demon Deacon alum won Rookie Coach of the Year in 2012 which was convincing enough. <br><br>#65<b>: South Dakota State:</b> Good year for the Jackrabbits - won regular season and tournament titles, NCAA appearance. However, Aaron Johnston loses two assistants to head coaching jobs elsewhere. Still, SDSU will be shooting for their fifth straight conference tournament championship/NCAA appearance this season.<br><br>#66: <b>Brigham Young</b>: Cougars nationally ranked for the first time since 2006. PG Haley Steed playing at BYU for six years now, lost three seasons to knee injuries. Steed was third in A/TO ratio in the country last year, and was fourth in assists per game. (168 assists, 64 turnovers.) <br><br>#67: <b>Wisconsin</b>: Disappointing 9-20 season for the Badgers and a tough start for first-year coach Bobbie Kelsey. Kelsey's reputation is as a recruiter, six new Badgers signed in the off-season. Facilities at Kohl Center getting a facelift including women's locker room. Kelsey contract extended to 2017.<br><br>#68: <b>South Florida</b>: Bulls have to wait a year for PG Tremaine McCullough to graduate from high school. Sun Dome completes renovation, women's BB team can move back in and leave the shoebox of the USF Recreation Center (seating - approximately 1000).<br><br>#69: <b>Colorado</b>: Colorado breaks the 20-win mark for the first time since the 2003-04 season. Linda Lappe loses assistant coach Kelly Rae Finley to Drake, new recruiting coordinator comes in. New class of Buffs is high-ranked recruiting class; CU loses just one player to graduation.<br><br>#70: <b> Arkansas-Little Rock</b>: Third straight NCAA appearance after a 3-8 start to the season, sixth straight 20-win season by head coach Joe Foley. Keep an eye on sophomore guard Taylor Gault, led team last season in points (16.0 ppg) and steals; only freshman on First Team of Sun Belt and Sun Belt Freshman of the Year.</p>
https://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/30/3509088/ncaa-womens-basketball-top-programs-41-70James Bowman