WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says college basketball teams that don't graduate at least 40 percent of their players should be banned from postseason play.
Duncan told USA Today in an interview published Wednesday that the 40 percent mark is a "low bar."
If a school can't graduate two out of five of student-athletes, Duncan asked, how serious is it about its academic mission?
Duncan was to address the graduation rate issue in a conference call later Wednesday. Under Duncan's proposal, a dozen of the teams taking part in the NCAA men's basketball tournament this week would be on the outside looking in. That includes No. 1 seed Kentucky, which has a graduation rate of 31 percent, according to figures released this week.
