A Reinvestigation of the Relationship Between Big-Time Basketball Success and Average SAT Scores

In 1993, Irvin Tucker and Louis Amato expanded on McCormick and Tinsley’s research, looking at similar institutions to draw their own conclusions. They found that McCormick and Tinsley’s article was valid, and reaffirmed their findings, concluding that universities with higher ranked basketball programs saw applications from freshman with higher SAT scores than those universities with lower ranked programs. They concluded that there is a valid advertising effect if there is a tradition of major hoop success over time that creates a wider and higher quality applicant pool (which gives universities more opportunity to select the best). 
This is important to my research because it draws a positive correlation to long term basketball success and higher quality applicants. I hope to see this same finding with football.

·      Tucker, Irvin B., and Louis Amato. (1993). “Does Big-Time Success in Football or             Basketball Affect SAT Scores?” Economics of Education Review 12(2): 177-181.