I would like to claim the credit but my only involvement was to give Matt Howard (who is an outstanding finance student) one of his worst grades during the stretch run last year. As I mentioned last year at this time, our players are real students who do go to class--and are really nice kids to boot. Butler's star forward, Matt Howard got picked as Academic Player of the Year this year in NCAA division 1 and it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. He grew up in Connersville, IN with 10 siblings to keep him well grounded. In fact, when USA today did a preseason profile on Butler, the reporter was talking to one of my colleagues, Bill Templeton, and the reporter told him that she had just had one of the weirdest sports interviews that she ever had with Matt Howard. She said that Matt kept wanting to talk about this neat portfolio management class that he was in and she had to keep bringing him back to the subject of basketball. There may be some hope yet for college basketball.
Let the Madness begin...
Best wishes to all.
Your friend,
Bob Bennett writing from Heidelberg, Germany, with one of Bixby's colleagues.
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Did Bob Bennett have anything to do with this bracket?
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Marsha Hass <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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The Academic Performance Tournament
Inside Higher Education, The Academic Performance Tournament<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/03/14/the_ncaa_tournament_bracket_based_on_teams_academic_performance>:
For the sixth year, Inside Higher Ed presents the Academic Performance Tournament — our take on what the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament would look like if teams advanced based on their outcomes in the classroom.
The winners in our bracket were determined using the NCAA’s multi-year Academic Progress Rate<http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/newmedia/public/rates/index.html>, a nationally comparable score that gives points to teams whose players stay in good academic standing and remain enrolled from semester to semester. Ties were broken using the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate<http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/newmedia/public/rates/index.html>, which considers transfers and does not punish teams whose athletes leave college before graduation if they leave in good academic standing.
The Final Four are Butler, Kansas, Princeton, and Texas, with Butler the National Champion [click on bracket to enlarge]:
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