US Education Secretary Arne Duncan did not dribble around the question when I asked him if collegiate basketball programs with longterm, gross racial disparities in graduation rates should be banned from March Madness. “Where you have insidious gaps, and where there isn’t movement, I think there have to be consequences,” Duncan said in a conference call on athletic reform last week.

 

The NCAA is thus far unmoved by the fact that nearly a third of the field is plagued by such poor performance, which is all the more noteworthy because most of those same 21 schools had a 100 percent graduation rate for their white players. A year and a half ago, I asked NCAA President Mark Emmert if there should be further consequences for programs in the tournament that harbor such racial gaps.

 

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List of 2013 NCAA Tournament Schools with 

100% Graduation Rates for Black Male Basketball Athletes:

Belmont University

Bucknell University 

Duke University 

Florida Gulf Coast University

Gonzaga University

Harvard University 

Saint Mary’s University

University of Illinois – Champaign

University of Kansas

University of Notre Dame

University of the Pacific

Valparaiso University

Villanova Univeersity

Western Kentucky University

Witchita State University 

 

List of 2013 NCAA Tournament Schools with 

Worst Black Male Graduation Rates for Basketball Athletes:

University of Florida – 0%

South Dakota State University – 0%

University of Wisconsin – 14%

Iowa State University – 14%

New Mexico State University – 25%

Southern University – 27%

University of California – Berkley – 33%

Butler University – 33%

North Carolina A&T State University – 33%

Temple University – 36% 

The Ohio State University – 38%

University of Arizona – 38% 

Saint Louis University – 40%

Oklahoma State University – 40%