COLUMBIA, MO. • Years of transfers have put the Missouri men’s basketball team’s Academic Progress Rate in danger of earning NCAA sanctions, but the Tigers will avoid any penalties this year. MU’s newly released 2016-17 APR score checked in at 955, putting its rolling four-year average at 932. Only 10 Division I men’s basketball teams have a lower four-year APR average.
Teams that fall below 930 for a four-year average can be penalized by the NCAA, including postseason bans. Cuonzo Martin’s team will avoid any penalties for the coming season.
The program’s single-year score from 2013-14 of 851 has put MU in danger of sanctions the last three years, but this is the final APR cycle that the low score will count as part of MU’s four-year average.