The NCAA unleashed the database for academic progress ratings (APRs) for coaches in six different sports on Thursday. While it’s fun to plug in coaches from a few other sports — anyone surprised by Pete Carroll’s 971, 24 points higher than the college football average in 2008-09, and six-for-six over 925? — the most fun for us comes from plugging in the names of college basketball coaches and seeing how they did each year.
First, though, just a little background. The NCAA uses this little metric to determine how a team’s athletes are moving toward the ultimate [...]