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The following compares the graduation rates of the general student body with the graduation rates of men’s basketball players of the top 16 seeded teams in the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

Nine of the 16 schools whose general student population graduation is lower rate than men’s basketball players: 

School (Basketball Players Rate/General Student Population Rate)

Arizona (64 percent, 60 percent)

Creighton (91 percent, 77 percent)

Duke (100 percent, 94 percent)

Kansas (100 percent, 61 percent)

Louisville (70 percent, 49 percent)

Michigan State (89 percent, 77 percent).

San Diego State (75 percent, 66 percent)

Villanova (100 percent, 90 percent)

Wichita State (75 percent, 41 percent)

Seven of the 16 schools whose general student population graduation is higher rate than men’s basketball players: 

School (Basketball Players Rate/General Student Population Rate)

Florida (60 percent, 85 percent)

Iowa State (54 percent, 70 percent)

Michigan (75 percent, 90 percent)

Syracuse (45 percent, 82 percent)

UCLA (60 percent, 90 percent)

Virginia (64 percent, 93 percent)

Wisconsin (44 percent, 83 percent)

Apparently, the one place you will not hear the phrase "The ‘Cuse is in the House" is at graduation. 

What’s up with that, Boeheim?

LOOKING FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE… No positive Results

Susanne Atanus, of Niles, Ill., garnered 54% of the vote to win the Republican primary election to challenge Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in the Chicago-area 9th Congressional District.

Atanus campaigned on the propositions that tornadoes, autism and dementia are God's punishments for marriage equality and abortion access.

She told the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago newspaper, "I am not in favor of abortions, I am not in favor of gay rights," "I am not in favor of abortions, I am not in favor of gay rights."

In an attempt to explain her views to the Windy City Times, an LGBT publication, Atanus said, "Everybody knows that God controls weather," "God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions."