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The last time Guilford’s vs«:>men'$ tennis team lost
to Randolph College.With last S^rday’s-8-1 road
win over the Wildcats, women’s tennis has won
four stral^t on Randolph’s courts.
_i,^ce that junior Peter Latimer finished out of
160 golfers at the Marine Federal Credit Union
Intercollegiate last weekend. Latimer shot even-par,
and the Quakers placed seventh out of 32 teams.
Points by men’s lacrosse fresfiman attacker Darn'd^
Dowd this season. Dowd is leading the team «i
goals (10) and assists (6).
Combined games lossed by the men's tennis
team’s first-years Billy Dennis, Garrett Tanner, Ben
Lewis and Brandon Johnson last Saturday when
Guilford beat Randolph College 9-0.
31.65
Million-dollars, what college basketball coach John
Caliparl-witl be paid to coach for U, Kentucky
over the next eight years.The ex-Memphis coach
will be making more money than half of the
coaches in tiie NBA,
SPORTS
Drop-out rates trouble the NCAA
By L/z Farqubar
Staff Writer
Over the years the NCAA championship basket
ball tournament, also known as March Madness, has
become a yearly highlight for sports fans who love
the excitement of witnessing upsets, watching their
favorite college teams, and filling out brackets.
The top teams in the league compete against each
other to be named the best. This season the teams
that made it to the "Final Four" are the University of
Connecticut (UConn), Michigan State, Villanova, and
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The athletes that play for the top college basketball
teams are often seen in the media, and are recogniz
able to the average sports fan. Assistant Professor of
Sports Science Bob Malekoff believes that these stu
dent-athletes are being treated increasingly more like
celebrities in the athletic world.
"It is another barrier keeping (these athletes) from
realizing why they are in college," Malekoff said.
"Because of the microscope they are under, it is
increasingly hard to have a normal college experi
ence."
The celebrity status that these student-athletes
receive could contribute to their low graduation
rates.
"I think (the celebrity status) is poisonous to ath
lete's success; it can blind them from their goals to
graduate college," freshman football player Jordan
Dutton said.
For instance, at UConn the graduation rate of men's
basketball players is 33%, which is roughly 30% lower
than that of the average student body and 63% lower
than that of the women's basketball team, according
to the Institution for Diversity and Ethics in Sports
and uconn.edu.
Typically, as the NCAA tournament progresses,
teams that remain have lower graduation rates. In
the "Sweet 16," three teams, Arizona, Missouri and
UConn had graduation rates lower than 40%.
"I think there is nothing wrong with competition
as long as it lines up with the expectations of the col
lege," Malekoff said.
Some analysts believe that colleges are being used
as a "minor league" for the NBA. Players are continu
ously getting into colleges, and then dropping out for
early-entry into the NBA draft.
Until 2006, high-school athletes could enter the
NBA following graduation. However, a ruling was
made stating that any person participating in the NBA
draft had to be either at least 19 years of age or have
completed one or more years of higher education.
NBA's ruling has gotten more athletes to college,
but in 2008, 22 student-athletes dropped out of col
lege to enter the NBA draft. The question may be
asked as to whether these students are using higher
education for basketball practice before they can play
in the NBA.
"(These athletes) might be killing time, but I
wouldn't say 'killing time' because you have to keep
your grades up to play that sport, so they are at least
getting one good year of schooling, if not more,"
sophomore football player Ryan Hammond said.
The graduation rate of NCAA players in men's
basketball is 69 percent, which is up from 2007 when
it was 61 percent, and 10 percent higher than it was in
2005, according to ncaa.org.
"I think dropout rates are pretty average,"
Hammond said. "I am surprised that athletes' drop
out rates are higher than the average student popula
tion, for me, practice and working out with friends
helps me to want to go to class."
Malekoff believes that many high school athletes
going to Division I schools have the mentality that
they are going for football or basketball and the edu
cation is an additional prospect, which may lead to
the easy detachment from college.
When asked if he would leave college for the pros,
freshman basketball player Will Cloyd was quick to
respond.
"If I were good enough (to go pro), I would do it in
a heartbeat."