Tom Crean’s final four seasons as the Indiana basketball coach saw drops in IU’s Academic Progress Rate or rates below the cutoff to avoid potential postseason penalties.

Tom Crean's final IU team (2016-17) had a 920 single-season APR. That season dragged the IU basketball multi-year APR down to 943. Teams must have a multi-year APR of 930 to avoid the potential of a postseason ban.

IU basketball’s multi-year APR dropped Crean’s final three seasons. It fell from a perfect 1,000 in 2013-14 to 985 in 2014-15, 964 in 2015-16 and 943 in 2016-17.

From the NCAA: "To compete in the 2018-19 postseason, teams must achieve a 930 four-year APR. NCAA members chose the 930 standard because that score predicts, on average, a 50 percent graduation rate for teams at that APR level. Additionally, teams must earn at least a 930 four-year APR to avoid penalties.”

IU’s mutli-year APR of 943 is next to last among the 14 Big Ten men’s basketball programs, ahead of only Ohio State’s 936.

The APR has a one-year lag to allow for the collection and verification of the data. The currently multi-year scores are through the 2016-17 season.

From 2004-05 through 2008-09, Indiana’s multi-year APR was below 930. The scores those years were 922, 890, 899, 866, 878 and 929.

IU’s multi-year APR hit 952 in 2010-11 and was a perfect 1,000 for three years in a row, from 2011-12 through 2013-14.

IU men’s basketball single-season APR’s by year the past four years (IU’s 2012-13 APR was a perfect 1,000)

2013-14 — 978

2014-15 — 943

2015-16 — 918

2016-17 — 920

Indiana had success in a number of sports recently.

Nine Indiana programs earned perfect 1,000 APR scores for the 2016-17 and three teams earned perfect multi-year scores.

The nine IU programs earning a perfect APR score for 2016-17 academic year are field hockey, men's cross country, women's cross country, men's golf, women’s golf, softball, women’s swimming and diving, women's tennis and volleyball, and the three IU teams that earned perfect multi-year scores of 1,000 were field hockey, men's golf and women's tennis, IU announced.

"While our students have excelled in the classroom across all of our sports, we especially congratulate the students on these teams who earned perfect APR scores,” IU athletic director Fred Glass said in a statement.

“The number of perfect APR scores for individual sports coupled with our overall academic success is reflective of the priority our department places on excelling in the classroom and earning Indiana University degrees. We are very proud of our students.”

Notes from IU as a matter of explanation of the APR:

- The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.

The most recent APR scores are based on a multi-year formula of scores from the 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years.

To compete in 2018-19 NCAA championships, teams must earn a 930 four-year average APR.

The goal of the NCAA's academic performance program is improvement, not punishment. Not only does the program ensure accountability for student-athletes, teams and institutions, but it also provides fairness by considering individual circumstances.

The full release from the NCAA can be found by clicking here, and the searchable APR database can be found by clicking here.

Multi-year Academic Progress Rate scores for Big Ten men’s basketball programs through the 2016-17 season:

Michigan State - 1,000

Michigan - 995

Illinois - 985

Wisconsin - 985

Northwestern - 984

Penn State - 975

Nebraska - 974

Rutgers - 973

Purdue - 965

Iowa - 960

Maryland - 960

Minnesota - 957

Indiana - 943

Ohio State - 936

IU Athletics Program’s APR Scores

Sport: Single season 2016-17/Multi-year 2013-14 through 2016-17.

Baseball: 959/981

Men’s Basketball: 920/943

Women’s Basketball: 963/981

Men’s Cross Country: 1000/991

Women’s Cross Country: 1000/995

Field Hockey: 1000/1000

Football: 967/976

Men’s Golf: 1000/1000

Women’s Golf: 1000/986

Rowing: 981/984

Men’s Soccer: 958/982

Women’s Soccer: 991/995

Softball: 1000/997

Men’s Swimming and Diving: 970/985

Women’s Swimming and Diving: 1000/994

Men’s Tennis: 947/968

Women’s Tennis: 1000/1000

Men’s Track and Field: 992/979

Women’s Track and Field: 993/987

Volleyball: 1000/994

Water Polo: 960/979

Wrestling: 977/961