BATON ROUGE (NBC33) - — Southern is one of six BCS schools facing academic penalties from the NCAA. Reports say that the Southern University men's basketball and football teams will recieve a postseason ban due to low APR scores.

Academic Progress Rate or APR is a way for the NCAA to indicate the success of college athletic teams in moving student athletes towards graduation.

The results cover the academic years of 2006-07 through 2009-10.

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