Jackson State University is losing scholarships because of poor academic performance of its student athletes, reports GulfLive.com. Yesterday, the Academic Progress Rate numbers, used by the NCAA to award athletic scholarships, showed that JSU posted 872 on a scale of 1,000 points. Schools with scores under 925 are subject to penalties.
JSU also faces practices restrictions, according the GulfLive, and is the only school in the state to lose scholarships despite other schools in Mississippi also falling below the 925 score threshold. The story continues by saying that schools will lose scholarships "if they show a pattern of continued poor performance or if student-athletes in those programs leave while academically ineligible in the previous academic year."
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