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UConn’s latest graduation success rate? 11%. Yuck

Jim Calhoun

Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun watches his team during basketball practice in Louisville, Ky.,, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Connecticut is scheduled to play Iowa State in an NCAA tournament second-round college basketball game on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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You know how UConn won’t be playing in the Big East tournament this season? And how there is no chance that they’ll make a trip to the NCAA tournament this year? And how Alex Oriakhi is at Missouri this season?

Well, all of that can be traced by to UConn’s APR scores.

Now, the APR isn’t perfect -- far from it, actually -- but it is the way the NCAA measures academic strength within a program, and by just about any measure, UConn’s academics were an issue.

And now it looks like academics may end up joining recruiting violations, stolen laptops and failed bike rides as the last legacies from Jim Calhoun’s tenure in Storrs. From the CT Post:

UConn men’s basketball just posted an 11 percent Graduation Success Rate. The figure, which shows the percentage of athletes earning a degree within six years of entering college, is based on basketball players that began school from 2002-05. Quite of few of those athletes — Marcus Williams, Rudy Gay, Charlie Villanueva, Josh Boone — were early entrants for the NBA Draft. Still, UConn’s number is far below the national average of 74 percent.

11% is not good.

What is good, for UConn fans at least, is that this won’t affect their postseason standing at all.