The turnover could lead to problems down the road for UCA. The basketball team’s academic performance has been a concern in recent years, with Miles and sophomore forward Tirrell Brown having to sit out the fall semester last season because they were academically ineligible. Junior guard Oliver Wells was ineligible for the spring semester.
The NCAA uses the Academic Progress Rate to track schools’ graduation and retention rates over a four-year period, and those scores can be affected by players leaving a program.
UCA’s Academic Progress Rate scores were 927 (multiyear) and 938 (2011-2012) in the NCAA’s latest report, which came out last June. When the new scores come out in June, the NCAA’s standard to avoid penalty will jump to 930 (multiyear) or 940 (yearly) over the most recent two years.
Pennell said he isn’t sure if UCA will be penalized when the next APR report comes out. But he said considering the state of where UCA’s program is on the court, the Bears are in a rebuilding process regardless of what happens academically.

Not sure how the turnover will play out

UCA Athletic Director Brad Teague told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Thursday that the men’s basketball program, barring a waiver from the NCAA, will be ineligible for the 2014-2015 postseason because of low Academic Progress Rate scores.

The Bears will miss out on the Southland Conference Tournament and the NCAA Tournament in 2015.