ONLY 9 N.C. STATE PLAYERS EARNED DEGREES IN 1980S

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 7, 1993                   TAG: 9302070084
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short
ONLY 9 N.C. STATE PLAYERS EARNED DEGREES IN 1980S
Not one North Carolina State basketball player who has entered the program since 1985 has earned a degree from the school.
An academic performance report, released to the school's board of trustees Friday, also showed that through the 1980s, only nine of the 43 eligible men's basketball players picked up their degrees. The numbers come in the wake of a dismal Wolfpack season marked by injuries, academic suspensions and a player suicide.
N.C. State chancellor Larry Monteith said the university is working to improve the academic progress of current players.
Of the 34 basketball players who failed to graduate during the past decade, some went on to play professional basketball, others played in Europe, others transferred and some dropped out of school, provost Frank Hart said.
According to recent figures from the NCAA, all of Duke's basketball players who entered in 1983 and 1984 graduated. At North Carolina, 83 percent of the players who entered in those years graduated within six years. At N.C. State, only 13 percent of the players entering classes in 1983 and 1984 received degrees.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB