Derrick Jackson

With far fewer resources, the two Cricket Celebration Bowl teams have graduation rates of nearly 90%

All of the women’s Final Four teams have exemplary rates, but not so for the men’s teams

But we have two in the women’s Final Four: Dawn Staley and Adia Barnes

The class-action suit says the organization’s academic standards are discriminatory and unjustly penalize programs

Penalties highlight patterns of inequities that cannot be ignored

UConn, for example, graduates 100% of its basketball athletes

They are prized for their skills but stereotyped on campuses and in society

Men’s programs are getting better, but black-white gaps persist

It also helps show a way African-Americans and low-income families are continually shut out of college

There’s not equity among black and white athletes, and some schools are still lagging behind