INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Academic Progress Reports (APR) were released Tuesday with the University of Dayton athletics programs continuing to excel.  Data contained in the report is through the 2023-24 academic year.

Here are Dayton's highlights from the report:
•    The following six programs had perfect scores of 1,000: women's basketball, men's cross country, men's golf, women's golf, men's tennis and women's tennis. 
•    Overall, Dayton averaged an APR of 990 across all programs, six points above the national average of 984.
•    Women's basketball is one of three WBB programs in the A-10, and three in the state of Ohio with a perfect score. 
•    Football's 984 APR is third  in the Pioneer Football League.
•    Football is also third among Division I teams in Ohio, behind Ohio State and Cincinnati.
•    Women's soccer (997) is tied for third in the A-10, and third in Ohio.
•    Track and field (991) is tied for third in Ohio.
•    Volleyball was one of 14 teams to advance to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament to have an APR of 989 or better.
•    Men's basketball (983) is fourth in the conference and third in Ohio.
•    Men's soccer was one of 15 teams to win two games in the NCAA College Cup who had an APR of 965 or better.

Dayton is among just 15 institutions to have at least three teams earn APR perfect score recognition in each of the 21 years of the APR report.  The other schools are Brown, Bucknell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Harvard, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Penn, Princeton and Yale.

Throughout 21 years of the Academic Performance Program, nearly 22,000 student-athletes have gone back to school to earn their degrees — earning points for their former team. These student-athletes are typically not counted in the federal graduation rate or Graduation Success Rate calculations.

Each academic year, every Division I sports team calculates its APR using a simple and consistent formula. Each term, scholarship student-athletes can earn one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. For schools that do not offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked.