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[Joe Foss]

The WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division I is as follows:

Rank School 2009-10 Head Coach Team GPA
1 Utah Valley University Cathy Nixon 3.630
2 South Dakota State University Aaron Johnston 3.622
3 Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County Phil Stern 3.578
4 Indiana State University Teri Moren 3.508
5 Creighton University Jim Flanery 3.506
6 Bowling Green State University Curt Miller 3.500
7 University of Northern Iowa Tanya Warren 3.464
8 DePaul University Douglas Bruno 3.455
9 Lipscomb University Frank Bennett 3.452
10 University of North Dakota Gene Roebuck 3.442
11 University of New Mexico Don Flanagan 3.433
12 North Dakota State University Carolyn DeHoff 3.427
13 Northern Arizona University Laurie Kelly 3.425
14 Bucknell University Kathy Fedorjaka 3.422
15 Monmouth University Stephanie Gaitley 3.412
16 University of South Dakota Ryun Williams 3.368
17 Saint Bonaventure University Jim Crowley 3.354
18 University of Northern Colorado Jaime White 3.351
19 University of Denver Erik Johnson 3.342
20 Seattle University Joan Bonvicini 3.341
21 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sandy Botham 3.340
22 Eastern Washington University Wendy Schuller 3.328
23 University of Hartford Jennifer Rizzotti 3.321
24 Oakland University Beckie Francis 3.318
25 Cornell University Dayna Smith 3.308


http://www.wbca.org/releases/2010AcademicTop25.html

Mid-majors dominate this list. Of the top 25 schools listed, only one (DePaul) is from a BCS conference.

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[shrrew]

Yey! south dakota and arizona universities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[PUmatty]

That Depaul is the only BCS school on that list is yet another reason to admire Doug Bruno.

[auntie]

Interesting, but I would be careful with such a list. The academic requirements vary from school to school and we don't know where grade inflation is a big thing.

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A woman's place is in the paint--Another artist for Liberty.

[Dennis1361]

I am sorry but a 3.5 at Utah Valley State is not the same as a 3.5 at Harvard and a 3.5 in Ed is not remotely similar to a 3.5 in Pre med

[ClayK]

But it is more than coincidental that the BCS schools are not at all well represented. I think there are about 70 BCS schools, and there are 330 or so D-1 schools -- so the law of averages would suggest that about five BCS schools should be on the list.

They're not, but then again, who is the NCAA trying to fool? It is not an organization concerned with the "student" half of the "student-athlete", nor in fact does it worry itself much at all about anything but the universities that support it, and the people who work for those universities.

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Clay Kallam

[Dennis1361]

It makes no difference if its a BCS school or not. The only academic school with any standing is Cornel the rest are all 3rd rate or lower
We all know the top rated academic schools such as the Ivy's Stanford etc The second rank would be the schools such as UC, U of Mich. One would also have to give high academic rankings to the smaller schools such as Carlton, Williams, Haverford etc

Not a big deal, just a meaningless award

[PUmatty]