{"id":145721,"date":"2025-03-20T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/what-if-the-womens-ncaa-tournament-was-based-on-academics-an-all-ivy-league-final\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:11:18","slug":"what-if-the-womens-ncaa-tournament-was-based-on-academics-an-all-ivy-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=145721","title":{"rendered":"What if the WOMEN&#8217;s NCAA tournament was based on academics? An all-Ivy League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-1140x420.webp\" class=\"singular-image entry-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176727 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176727 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-1536x1025.webp 1536w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket-600x400.webp 600w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womens-bracket.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/2025\/03\/19\/what-if-the-ncaa-tournament-was-based-on-academics-congratulations-clemson-tigers\/\">we posted<\/a> on <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>\u2018s men\u2019s bracket. Today we have the women:<\/p>\n<p><em>Here at\u00a0<\/em>Inside Higher Ed, <em>though, we celebrate the start of March Madness a little differently from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/womens-basketball-maintains-strong-tv-ratings-and-attendance-this-season-ahead-of-march-madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the 1.44 million people<\/a>\u00a0who tuned in earlier this month to this year\u2019s Big Ten championship face-off between the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. For every tournament\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/03\/14\/bracket-you-wont-see-elsewhere\">since 2006<\/a>, we\u2019ve created a bracket of who would take home the trophy if the winners were selected based on academic, rather than athletic, achievement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u2019re new here (or you didn\u2019t see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/students\/athletics\/2025\/03\/19\/results-mens-march-madness-bracket-based-academics\">men\u2019s bracket from yesterday<\/a>), here\u2019s how it works: Matchups are decided by which team had the higher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web3.ncaa.org\/aprsearch\/aprsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">academic progress rate<\/a>\u2014the NCAA\u2019s own metric for measuring academic performance\u2014based on the most recent data available, from 2022\u201323. The academic progress rate measures student athlete retention and academic eligibility, though some outside experts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2015\/10\/08\/ncaa-urged-revamp-academic-metrics\">have criticized<\/a>\u00a0the metric for painting an incomplete picture of a team\u2019s academic achievement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we posted on Inside Higher Ed\u2018s men\u2019s bracket. Today we have the women: Here at\u00a0Inside Higher Ed, though, we celebrate the start of March Madness a little differently from\u00a0the 1.44 million people\u00a0who tuned in earlier this month to this year\u2019s Big Ten championship face-off between the University of Southern California and the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[52864,31184,61427,3528,6163,55309,3824,60822,3803,9864,60823,22273,61426,409],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-145721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-academic-life","tag-academics","tag-allivy","tag-based","tag-basketball","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-final","tag-inside-higher-ed","tag-league","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-tournament","tag-womens-basketball","tag-womens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What if the WOMEN&#039;s NCAA tournament was based on academics? 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