By one measure, UNC athletes’ academic performance takes a big dip

Amid an academic scandal involving athletics, the remnants of an NCAA investigation and multiple leadership changes, a key measure of academic progress for football and men’s basketball at UNC Chapel Hill has dropped to a new low. In the latest statistics from the NCAA, the men’s basketball team, at one point the best in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a near perfect score, is in eighth place. The football team never ranked higher than seventh, but it had managed to stay out of the ACC’s cellar until last year, when it had a score so low it is just a few points away from losing postseason eligibility. Both teams scored their all-time lows on a measure the NCAA launched in...