Now that the field of 64 has been pared down to the Sweet Sixteen for both the men and the women, VandyMania has decided to follow up on Mondayâ??s story about the correlation between NCAA graduation rates and athletic success by comparing it to the numbers for the surviving teams in the 2008 Tournament.
On the menâ??s side of the bracket, five of the remaining teamsâ??Stanford University, UCLA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin, and University of Texas-Austinâ??are ranked among the U.S. News & World Reportâ??s (USNWR) Top-50 colleges and universities for 2008.