Auburn’s Nick Maurillo led a pack of three Tigers competing Saturday at the Florida State Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla. Maurillo was the only singles player in the Round of 16 while Lukas Marsoun and Alex Stamchev advanced to the doubles quarterfinals.
Auburn’s Nick Maurillo led a pack of three Tigers competing Saturday at the Florida State Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla. Maurillo was the only singles player in the Round of 16 while Lukas Marsoun and Alex Stamchev advanced to the doubles quarterfinals.
The No. 11/12 Auburn women’s golf team wraps up its fall schedule this week as the Tigers travel to Reunion, Fla., for the Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship. The three-day event is set to take place at the Ginn Reunion Resort and will feature 16 of the top women’s golf team’s in the country.
With the start of the 2008-09 season less than two weeks away, the preseason honors continue to roll in for the Auburn women’s basketball teams as the Tigers were picked No. 20 in the Associated Press (AP) Preseason Top-25 poll, which was released Saturday.
Ben Tate rushed for 35 yards and a touchdown. However, Auburn falls to Ole Miss 17-7.
Auburn managed just 80 yards of total offense in the first half Saturday and never crossed midfield before halftime as Ole Miss jumped out to a 10-0 lead and held on to win 17-7 and drop the Tigers to 4-5 overall and 2-4 in the SEC. Go inside for a report on the Tigers’ offensive performance from Saturday.
The latest installment of the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate reports have been released for 2008.
The Graduation Success Rate measures how many players earned a four-year degree within a six-year window, accounting for both transfers into the footabll program as well as transfers out of the football program.
So how do the BCS schools stack up against one another? I’m glad you asked.
1. Notre Dame 94%
2. Stanford 93
T3. BC 92
T3. Duke 92
T3. Northwestern 92
6. Vanderbilt 91
7. Wake Forest 83
8. Texas Tech 79
T9. Baylor 78
T9. Nebraska 78
T9. UNC 78
T9. Penn State 78
T13. UConn 77
T13. Indiana 77
T15. Colorado 75
T15. Iowa 75
T15. Syracuse 75
T15. Virginia Tech 75
19. Cincinnati 73
T20. Illinois 70
T20. Michigan 70
T20. Miami 70
T20. Rutgers 70
24. Florida State 69
T25. Clemson 68
T25. Florida 68
T25. Maryland 68
T25. Wash State 68
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T29. Kansas State 67
T29. Pitt 67
31. Virginia 66
T32. South Carolina 65
T32. Washington 65
T34. Oregon State 64
T34. Ole Miss 63
T34. Miss State 63
T34. Purdue 63
T34. West Virginia 63
T34. Wisconsin 63
T40. Okla State 62
T40. UCLA 62
42. Arizona State 60
T43. N.C. State 59
T43. Missouri 59
45. Louisville 58
46. Auburn 57
T47. Kentucky 56
T47. Texas A&M 56
T47. South Florida 56
T50. Alabama 55
T50. Iowa State 55
T52. LSU 54
T52. Tennessee 54
T52. USC 54
T55. Cal 53
T55. Oregon 53
T55. Kansas 53
58. Ohio State 52
T58. Arkansas 52
T60. Minnesota 51
T60. Michigan State 51
62. Texas 50
T63. Georgia 48
T63. Georgia Tech 48
65. Oklahoma 46
66. Arizona 41
I wasn’t surprised to see some of the finest academic institutions grabbing the top spots, but I was SHOCKED to see Texas Tech at #8. Kudos to the Red Raiders!
The average GSR scores of the six BCS conferences:
1. ACC……..72.3
2. Big East…67.4
3. Big Ten….66
4. Big 12…..63.2
5. Pac-10…..61.3
6. SEC………60.5
For all the blustering about the Pac10’s high academic standards, I would have expected one of those standards to be…. graduation.
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