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Goose85
03-12-2012, 09:54 AM
Interesting article that discusses why basketball success in the NCAA tourney leads to increased enrollment and higher standards of admission for colleges.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/53175/tournament-pays-handsomely-for-schools

IWB
03-12-2012, 10:24 AM
Great article and very true. Look at what happened at MU - the number of student applications tripled, so in one year the necessary GPA/ACT to get in went up drastically. Then take a look at the other side of things - Al McGuire Center, Dental School, Law School, Library, Engineering School - how many of those things were built before 2003? Not to mention all of the apartments and other buildings on campus that Marquette had put up.

Basketball success = overall University success.

Buzz Williams = a better Marquette University.