NCAA and Higher Admission Standards

[Goose85]

Interesting article that discusses why basketball success in the NCAA tourney leads to increased enrollment and higher standards of admission for colleges.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/53175/tournament-pays-handsomely-for-schools

[IWB]

Great article and very true. Look at what happened at MU - the number of student applications tripled, so in one year the necessary GPA/ACT to get in went up drastically. Then take a look at the other side of things - Al McGuire Center, Dental School, Law School, Library, Engineering School - how many of those things were built before 2003? Not to mention all of the apartments and other buildings on campus that Marquette had put up.

Basketball success = overall University success.

Buzz Williams = a better Marquette University.