PROVO -- The NCAA has honored the BYU men's basketball team with a public recognition award for the Cougars' Academic Progress Rate scores. BYU posted multi-year APR scores in the top 10 percent of all men's basketball teams in the country.
"The athletes have really worked hard at striving to be good students," said E.J. Caffaro, Student Athlete Academic Center director and men's basketball academic coach. "We've worked hard to put together a strong academic program. Their high score is a result of their hard work and the success of that program."
Out of the 336 Division I men's basketball programs in the country, BYU is one of 35 to be honored by the NCAA and the only basketball team from Mountain West Conference to receive the recognition. The Cougars are also one of only 10 teams to earn high academic achievement and also qualify for the past year's NCAA Tournament. Other NCAA Tournament teams who also received public recognition awards were Belmont (NCAA No. 15 seed), Holy Cross (No. 13 seed), Davidson (No. 13 seed), Illinois (No. 12 seed), North Carolina (No. 1 seed), Notre Dame (No. 6 seed), Pennsylvania (No. 14 seed), Villanova (No. 9 seed) and Xavier (No. 9 seed).
Men's Basketball Public Recognition Awards
Appalachian State University
Belmont University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Bucknell University
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia University-Barnard College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Drexel University
Florida State University
Furman University
Harvard University
Hofstra University
Lafayette College
Marist College
Princeton University
Rider University
Saint Louis University
Samford University
U.S. Naval Academy
University of Dayton
University of Detroit Mercy
University of Illinois, Champaign
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toledo
Villanova University
Wake Forest University
Western Michigan University
Xavier University
Yale University