Seven FCS teams banned from postseason
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) - Seven FCS programs, all but one from the level's two conferences for historically black colleges and universities, received 2014 postseason bans Wednesday for poor NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate scores.
The bans, based on four-year APR data, were lobbied against Alabama State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Mississippi Valley State and Prairie View A&M from the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Florida A&M and Savannah State from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference as well as Saint Francis (Pennsylvania) from the Northeast Conference.
Programs with APR penalties usually have significantly fewer resources than those at top NCAA programs.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}APR scores measure the classroom performance of a team over a four-year period. The new scores reflect the 2009-10 through 2012-13 school years.
A perfect score is 1,000. The overall four-year APR score in Division I is 976.