Final Four Results If Academics Mattered More Than Athletics [Bracket]

Could you imagine? One day, the world decided to take a crazy turn for the worst. Not only are sports meaningless, but academics have taken over to the point where people are putting together large tournaments to decide who is the superior scholar.

The scores would be high, the cheerleaders would be slutty. The world would remain the same, only in this land of make-believe, Gordon Gee would have the authority to get rid of Tressel for not reporting an email he received regarding his star Mathematician.

The below bracket is based on if academics determined the winner of the NCAA Championship.  Some dudes over at Inside Higher Ed put this together using the following methodology:

The winners in our bracket were determined using the NCAA’s multi-year Academic Progress Rate, a nationally comparable score that gives points to teams whose players stay in good academic standing and remain enrolled from semester to semester. Ties were broken using the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate, which considers transfers and does not punish teams whose athletes leave college before graduation if they leave in good academic standing.

I would call this the “Non-p***y getting” Tournament, but if that were the case, I think we know what team would win that tournament.

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