OU Women's Basketball Team Earns High Marks Off the Court

Originally Published: May 12, 2010 1:38 PM CDT

Oklahoma Sports Staff and Wire Reports

INDIANAPOLIS -- Butler, Michigan State and West Virginia are not just winning basketball games, they're making the grades, too.

The NCAA says the three Final Four participants are among the top 10 percent of men's basketball teams in the latest Academic Progress Rate rankings. The APR is a measure of how student-athletes perform in the classroom.

Oklahoma was the only women's Final Four team to make the list. Stanford knocked out Sherri Coale's Sooners 73-66 to advance to the national championship.

Duke and Connecticut, the two national champions last season, did not make the cut. Neither did Alabama or Texas, which played for college football's national championship.

The NCAA publicly recognizes teams that finish among the top 10 percent of all teams in each sport.