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"No matter how many teams we examine, overall women basketball student-athletes succeed academically better than their male counterparts. And no matter whether we look at women's or men's college basketball, the gap between the graduation rates of white and African-American basketball student-athletes is too big and must be narrowed," Lapchick said. "I believe that NCAA President Myles Brand's reform package is leading us in the right way but the job is far from done."
Denise Stewart is an Alabama-based writer who has been published in national magazines, and online news sites.