Southeast posts passing scores in APR review

Southeast Missouri State athletics received a clean bill of health for the second consecutive year regarding the NCAA's annual Academic Progress Rate results released Wednesday.

None of Southeast's 15 sports were hit with any penalties from the NCAA for the 2012-13 season. That was also the case a year ago.

The last time Southeast suffered any penalties for substandard multi-year APR scores was for the 2010-11 season, when both the football and men's basketball programs lost scholarships.

Scores released Wednesday were calculated based on a four-year period from the 2007 fall semester through the 2011 spring semester.

The APR awards two points each term to athletes who meet academic eligibility standards and who remain with the institution. A team's APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible, multiplied by 1,000.

Teams that score below 900 can face immediate penalties. If a program consistently scores too low, it can be hit with the NCAA's toughest sanctions, like a ban from postseason play.

Two Southeast programs, men's cross country and gymnastics, received perfect APR scores of 1,000. Those teams were among 954 publicly recognized last week for posting multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of each sport.

Other Southeast APR scores were men's basketball (908), football (935), men's indoor track (943), men's outdoor track (943), women's cross country (956), women's basketball (960), soccer (972), women's indoor track (972), women's outdoor track (973), softball (974), tennis (975), baseball (979) and volleyball (991).

The NCAA reported that 35 Division I teams face penalties in 2012-13 for posting an APR score below 900. That's down from the 103 teams that faced penalties last year.

One Ohio Valley Conference program was penalized. The Jacksonville State men's basketball team had a multi-year rate of 889 and was given a NCAA postseason ban for 2012-13 due to historic penalties.

That means Jacksonville State will not be eligible to compete in the 2013 OVC men's basketball tournament.

The Gamecocks also will lose three games off their schedule, be limited to 16 hours of practice per week, four hours per week of offseason work and 11 scholarships.