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August 02, 2005
DURHAM, N.C. - The National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) announced its third annual Collegiate Power Rankings this week with Duke University first on the list of the top academic and athletic colleges/universities in the country at the NCAA Division I level.
Rounding out the top fiver were Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Notre Dame. In Addison, Duke ranked third in the overall NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings which compare all schools at the Division I, II and III levels.
In the 2004-05 campaign, Duke garnered five Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) tournament titles, three ACC regular season crowns, 15 teams competed in NCAA Tournament action, four teams advance to the NCAA Final Four and three teams finished runner-up for the NCAA Championship. The Blue Devils had 30 All-America selections to go along with the women's golf team winning their third NCAA Championship, while sophomore golfer Anna Grzebien won the NCAA individual title.
The National Collegiate Scouting Association matches college coaches with the right student-athletes by building lasting relationships with collegiate coaches and empowering student-athletes to achieve the best education possible. The NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings provide data that allows prospective student-athletes and parents to evaluate the particular strengths of universities based on academic and athletic factors, as well as student-athlete graduation rates.
NCSA's power rankings are calculated for each school by averaging the US News & World Report ranking, the US Sports Academy Director's Cup rank and the student-athlete graduation rate of each school. The US Sports Academy Director's Cup ranking evaluates the strengths of NCAA Athletic departments, while the US News & World Report ranking recognizes institutions of academic excellence. The student-athlete graduation rates are based on those provided by the NCAA.
Duke ranked fifth in the US News & World Report, fifth in the final Division I NACDA ranking, and sixth in Division I student-athlete graduation rates. NCSA was founded in April of 2000 by Chris Krause, a former full scholarship football player at Vanderbilt University.
