Detroit Mercy basketball not eligible for NCAA tournament after low APR score

[oklahomamick]

Detroit Mercy basketball not eligible for NCAA tournament after low APR score

www.freep.com/story/sports/college/2019/05/09/detroit-mercy-basketball-eligible-ncaa-tournament/1156203001/

[VUGrad1314]

Not that they would be making it anyway...

[bbtds]

Not that they would be making it anyway...

You never know. Mike Davis is capable of building a program on reputation alone if he gets the athletes who will stay and at least complete the minimum requirements academically. There are still a bunch of transfer candidates out there. With Brannen and McDonald gone at NKU and Kampe's future jailbirds still at OU the HL is wide open also.

[EddieCabot]

Not that they would be making it anyway...

You never know. Mike Davis is capable of building a program on reputation alone if he gets the athletes who will stay and at least complete the minimum requirements academically. There are still a bunch of transfer candidates out there. With Brannen and McDonald gone at NKU and Kampe's future jailbirds still at OU the HL is wide open also.

Agree.  As bad as the Horizon is, they still get a bid to the NCAA tourney that somebody has to get.  UDM could never compete in a league like the MVC, but in the Horizon?  Who knows?

I assume that UDM will be banned from the Horizon League tourney since they aren't NCAA tourney eligible.  Shouldn't be a problem since only 8 of the 10 teams make the tourney anyway.

[oklahomamick]

Next year the conference tournament won't be down the street from them either. 

[vu72]

I assume that UDM will be banned from the Horizon League tourney since they aren't NCAA tourney eligible.  Shouldn't be a problem since only 8 of the 10 teams make the tourney anyway.

Yes, the article says as much.  Interestingly enough, 50% of the score is based on retention and 50% on academics.  With 850 kids now transferred this year, it would seem more and more programs may face this sort of thing.  Still, as a school with a perceived high academic reputation,(25th in the Midwest) this can't be good news for recruiting or basketball.

[valpopal]

Meanwhile, Kentucky posts perfect APR scores and receives awards for academics year after year despite an apparent low overall graduation rate of recruits thanks to the end of bench players who never play but graduate and because the NCAA allows an exemption for those who leave for the pros, even one-and-done players, plus Calipari gets a $50,000 bonus for the artificially high scores. Check the UK Verbal commits page, where it appears they only had one senior, a walk-on, this year, and next year's lone senior is Brad Calipari.