HBCU Conference Schools Take Big Hits in Latest NCAA Academic Progress Report: NCAA President Mark Emmert expects athletes at historically Black colleges and universities to make the grade and he's willing to help after seeing the results of the latest Academic Progress Rates.
The NCAA anned Jackson State and Southern of the Southwestern Athletic Conference from postseason play in football next season and did the same thing for Southern and Grambling in men's basketball, citing poor classroom performance by all three schools and a host of others in the SWAC and Mid-Eastern Athletic conferences.
The SWAC does not get an automatic bid to the NCAA's FCS playoffs, but its own conference title game could be affected.
The NCAA released the penalties Tuesday. Southern became the first school to be banned from the postseason in two sports in the same year football and men's basketball because of academic performance.
