STORRS, Conn. (AP) – Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun says he’s confident the NCAA will make changes to reporting rules before the 2013 national championships that would give the Huskies a chance to qualify for the tournament.
Under rules approved Thursday, the defending national champions would be academically ineligible, because the NCAA plans to use data from the 2009-10, and 2010-11 academic years.
Walter Harrison, the chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance, said it will be discussing whether to adjust reporting dates to allow schools to use their most recent data, in this case data from the 2011-12 academic year, in qualifying for tournaments.
Harrison said it’s not yet clear if that is feasible, given the number of schools, programs and athletes involved and the time consuming nature of compiling the data.
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