The Ball State University basketball team will have to start the 2009-10 season short-handed after losing two scholarships.
The NCAA released its Academic Progress Rate Report, which cited the basketball team fell below the required score of 925, scoring 873. Any team scoring under the 925 mark will fall under penalty, which resulted in the team losing the two scholarships.
The score assesses the academics of each team for each of the previous four academic years and averages them to reach the score. Teams can lose points for low grade point averages, athletes not graduating or transferring.
Teams can receive penalties ranging from warnings to cuts in practice time or even as severe as becoming ineligible for postseason play for sub par scores. Ball State is the only men's basketball team in the Mid-American Conference to fall under penalty, but is not the only Indiana university to fail to meet the requirement. Indiana University, IUPUI and Purdue University's men's basketball teams all also failed to make the 925 mark.
The team was the only of Ball State's 19 varsity sports that had a score below 925, while 11 of the teams scored higher than the national average.
Taylor filled his eleventh and final scholarship slot earlier this month with the signing of guard Myron Green Jr. from Compton, Calif.
Ball State student athletes, at large, averaged a 3.024 GPA for the 2007-08 academic year, which was second in the Mid-American Conference.
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