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Date Posted: 23:56:22 11/13/01 Tue
Author: Jon Ralston
Subject: Braswell a "Class" act

I found this in the LA Daily News and I thought I'd pass it along here. I'm not trying to start off a "my school is better than your school" line of discussion, merely trying to recognize the efforts of Coach Braswell and his staff of bringing in kids that play ball at a high level as well as getting their education.

Tuesday, November 13, 2001
High marks for CSUN
By Jill Painter
Staff Writer
The Cal State Northridge men's basketball team tied for the second-best graduation rate of the programs in last season's NCAA Tournament, according to a multiyear survey.

The survey, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, applies not only to last season's seniors but to all basketball players who were freshmen between the 1991-92 and 1994-95 seasons.

Stanford had the highest graduation rate at 100 percent and CSUN and Penn State followed at 80 percent. Notre Dame was third at 77 percent. USC graduated 50 percent, UCLA 38 percent.

"Here's one of the good things -- one of the good stories out there," CSUN basketball coach Bobby Braswell said. "This is the (public relations) we need because we work real hard to try to get our guys through school as students. We want to get them out of here with their degree."

Braswell began coaching at CSUN in 1996. He has preached the "ABCs of Braswell basketball -- academics, basketball and character."

In a survey of football teams that played in bowl games last season, UCLA had the eighth-best graduation rate at 59 percent. Northwestern ranked first at 86 percent.

The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has proposed banning teams that graduate athletes at a rate of 50 percent or less from competing in postseason tournaments and games.

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