The NCAA announced Monday that all but two UW-Madison athletic teams met or exceeded the minimum score for their newly implemented Academic Progress Rate, a system meant to track academic eligibility and retention of all Division I scholarship athletes, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Only the football and men's outdoor track teams failed to achieve the minimum score of 925 and will thus be viewed as academic underachievers in the eyes of the NCAA. As a result, the teams could be subject to penalties like scholarship losses beginning next year.
By comparison, at least 50 percent of the nation's Division I schools had at least one team that did not make the cut, about 410 of the NCAA's 5,720 teams.
The nation's collegiate sports most often not meeting the minimum score were football and baseball, with 29 and 23 percent of teams, respectively, academically underperforming.
