INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The NCAA released its 2016-17 Academic Progress Rates (APR) on Wednesday, and the University of Memphis athletics department will receive no penalties. It is the 13th-straight year that all 17 Tigers athletics programs did not incur APR penalties from the NCAA.
All 17 Tigers programs had APRs of 950 or higher, and Memphis' institutional average of APR scores was 980.4. The current APR is based on the multi-year period from 2012-13 through 2015-16.
For the 2015-16 year alone, Memphis had six programs with perfect 1000 scores. Those programs are baseball, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis, women's cross country and women's golf.