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Among the newspaper's findings:
Arizona's average 24% graduation rate in men's basketball is 23 points lower than that of its overall
male student body, a gap that began widening with the four classes comprising the Wildcats'
breakthrough 1988 Final Four team. The rate for black players in those classes was particularly low
(11%), and it has averaged just 12% since then.
Connecticut's average basketball rate of 39% falls 25 points beneath the male student body's.
UCLA's basketball rate, also 39%, is 34 points lower than males overall on its campus.
UNLV did not graduate a player who arrived in the eight years from 1988-95, the most recent
surveyed.
No black player who entered Syracuse in the nine years from 1987-95 graduated from the school.
Neither Louisville nor Arkansas graduated a black player who arrived in the seven-year period from
1989-95.
Also raising concerns are a couple of programs that fall just short of the 16-most-successful cutoff.
Cincinnati's 12% grad-rate average over the past 12 years is even lower than Oklahoma's, and the Bob
Huggins-coached Bearcats haven't graduated a single black player who arrived in a 10-year period from
1986-95. Memphis hasn't graduated a player, period, who arrived in the seven years from 1989-95.
Disgraceful, disgusting and disappointing.
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