Outside The Lines

[Michael Ryan]

Broadcast Reminder: 
ESPN
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET 

Outside The Lines
"Zero Percent: College Basketball's Graduation Crisis" 
ESPN's award-winning investigative news series will examine the fact
that at 35 of 323 Division I colleges, graduation rates for black
college basketball players have hit rock bottom: zero percent. Arkansas
is one of the zero-rate schools. So are Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, LSU,
Memphis, Oklahoma and Louisville. 

According to a 2001 study of the players entering school between 1990
and 1994, not a single black scholarship player graduated within six
years. That's five straight years of recruiting classes. With the
zero-rate fast becoming an incontrovertible fact of life, the graduation
rates question has become a crisis. 


I will withhold judgment until seeing the show. 

Mike Ryan