That was the heart of the message that a leading collegiate sports scholar delivered Thursday during what has become a pre-March Madness routine for the annual release of a report meant to call attention issues of academic equity.
Dr. Richard Lapchick, founder and director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics In Sport, or TIDES, at the University of Central Florida, said the “good news” from his new report — titled Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Success and Academic Progress Rates for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament Teams — is that the overall Graduation Success Rate, or GSR, for male basketball student-athletes increased in 2013 to 70 percent from 67 percent last year.
