Memphis Athletics Releases APR Scores

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The NCAA released its 2018-19 Academic Progress Rates (APR) Wednesday, and the University of Memphis athletics department had 15 of its 17 programs score above or near (within 10 points) the national APR average. The current APR is based on the multi-year period from 2014-15 through 2017-18.

In addition, none of the Memphis programs received any NCAA penalties for the 13^th-straight year and no NCAA postseason bans for the 14^th year in a row.

Of the 15 programs above or near the national APR average, seven were above. Those programs are baseball (UofM APR: 986/National APR: 976), men's cross country (987/982), football (976/964), women's golf (1000/991), rifle (993/986), softball (990/986) and men's track and field (975/973).

Memphis had eight other programs within 10 points of the national average in their respective sports. Those programs included women's basketball (981/982), women's cross country (985/989), men's soccer (975/979), women's soccer (984/989), men's tennis (976/983), women's tennis (981/990), women's track and field (975/983) and volleyball (978/987).

The men's basketball program had a multi-year APR of 940, a six-point increase from last year's 934.

For the 2017-18 year alone, Memphis had nine programs with perfect 1000 scores, which is up from five programs from 2016-17. Those programs are women's basketball, men's cross country, men's golf, women's golf, rifle, softball, men's tennis, women's tennis and men's track and field. Three other programs –baseball, football and women's track and field – had scores of 980 or higher for the 2017-18 year only.

Last week, the Memphis women's golf program was honored by the NCAA for posting an APR among the top-10 percent nationally in its sport. It was the ninth-straight year Tigers women's golf received an NCAA Public Recognition Award for its APR score.

Sport	Multi-Year APR	2017-18 APR Only	Sport	Multi-Year APR	2017-18 APR Only
Baseball	986	983	M-Soccer	974	975
M-Basketball	940	957	W-Soccer	984	978
W-Basketball	981	1000	Softball	990	1000
M-Cross Country	987	1000	M-Tennis	976	1000
W-Cross Country	985	977	W-Tennis	981	1000
Football	976	988	M-Track and Field	975	1000
M-Golf	972	1000	W-Track and Field	975	986
W-Golf	1000	1000	Volleyball	978	977
Rifle	933	1000

The following are some Memphis athletics APR highlights (four-year period from 2014-15 to 2017-18):

Women's golf (1000) tied for the highest APR score among American Athletic Conference schools in its sport (tied with ECU, Houston, USF)
Women's golf's ninth-consecutive year with a perfect 1000 score
Football's 976 score, its highest mark in program history and shattering its previous APR-best 968 score in 2015-16 and 2017-18
Football's 976 score, a 36-point improvement from its 2012-13 score of 940 and a 25-point improvement since 2013-14 (951)
Women's soccer's 984 score, a program record and the seventh time in last nine years with a 980 or higher score
Women's soccer's 984 score, a jump of 11 points the last five years
Rifle's 993 score, the fifth-straight year with a 990 or higher score (had perfect 1000 scores in 2014-15 and 2015-16)
Rifle's 993 score, tied for third in the Great America Rifle Conference (GARC)
Softball's 990 score, the 13^th-straight year with a 975 or higher score
Softball's 990 score, a 13-point jump from two years ago and the second-highest mark in program history (991 in 2006-07)
Women's basketball 981 score, a 13-point improvement from two years ago and the program's highest mark since 2007-08
Baseball (986) with the second-highest APR score among the league's schools in its sport for a second-straight year
Baseball's 986 score, the ninth-straight year with a 985 or higher score
Men's track and field (975) with the third-highest APR score among the league's schools in its sport
Men's cross country's 987 score, the fifth-straight year with a 985 or higher score (had perfect 1000 scores in 2014-15 and 2015-16)
Men's soccer (975) with the fourth-highest APR score among the league's schools in its sport
Men's soccer's 975 score, third-straight year with a 970 or higher score
Women's cross country's 985 score, tying its highest mark in program history for a third-straight year and the fifth-straight year with a 980 or higher score
Men's tennis' 976 score, the eighth-straight year with a 975 score or higher
Women's tennis' 981 score, the eighth time in the last nine years with a 980 score or higher and a 10-point improvement from last year
Men's and women's track and field's 975 scores, the fourth-straight year with 975 or higher scores (track and field has combined indoor and outdoor seasons the last four years)
Volleyball's 978 score, the 14^th-consecutive year with a 975 or higher score

The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.

Every Division I sports team calculates an APR each academic year. Scholarship student-athletes each semester receive one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating.

Teams scoring below certain thresholds can face consequences intended to require additional focus on academics, including practice restrictions, playing season reductions and postseason ineligibility.

In order to compete in the 2019-20 postseason, teams had to earn a 930 multi-year APR score. NCAA member campuses and conferences in Division I decided to move to the 930 standard because it predicts roughly a 50 percent graduation rate.

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