Ranking High

Hey, good times all around for Villanova fans. First, we're ranked in the Top 20 for the first time since... well, I think I was in college. Next, fellow Wildcat alum Topher sent us this piece from USA Today on the NCAA's new "Academic Progress Rate" (APR), where Villanova scored pretty highly...

Top five APRs

Yale 999 (27 of 29 teams scored a perfect 1,000), Princeton 994, Pennsylvania 993, William & Mary 992, Loyola Marymount and Villanova 991.

...Perfect 1,000s

Almost one in three teams — a total of 1,737 — had perfect APRs. There were 69 in women's basketball, including ranked teams Tennessee, DePaul, Texas Tech and Minnesota, and 33 in men's basketball, including ranked teams Alabama, Pacific and Villanova. There were none in I-A football.

Now if we could only keep phone cards out of the hands of our players.