Women Scholar Athletes Shine at South Dakota State University

No educational institution in the land compares to South Dakota State University in terms of the academic achievement of its women college basketball players. Once again this year, as has been the case on three other occasions in the past six years, the women on South Dakota State’s basketball team had the highest average grade point average of any NCAA Division I basketball team, according to calculations made by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. For the seventh straight year, the team at South Dakota State has finished among the top 25 in average grade point average.

Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, ranked second. DePaul University, Creighton University, and Utah Valley University rounded out the top five for the highest grade point averages among Division I women’s basketball teams.