SIUE men's basketball: APR score: 906. What does this mean?

I am going to try and answer a few questions here, regarding the situation with the men's basketball team's Academic Progress Rate score. The score was not provided in the release sent out by the Athletic Department in May, but became available to the public Thursday, when the NCAA released its APR database. SIUE's men's basketball team scored a 906. The women's team scored a perfect 1,000 but that is a different story. 

Here is a textbook definition of the APR 

The APR is calculated by allocating points for eligibility and retention -- the two factors that research identifies as the best indicators of graduation. Each player on a given roster earns a maximum of two points per term, one for being academically eligible and one for staying with the institution. A team's APR is the total points of a team's roster at a given time divided by the total points possible. Since this results in a decimal number, the CAP decided to multiply it by 1,000 for ease of reference. Thus, a raw APR score of .925 translates into the 925 that will become the standard terminology.^[1]

 The NCAA has the right to hand down punishments on schools who do not meet the 925 score, and those punishments can be something like losing a scholarship or in extreme cases, loss of post-season eligibility, something we can not afford to have happen to us, because we don't have it anyways yet. 

137 teams at 80 schools were penalized as a result of poor APR results this season.

Portland State was the only men's basketball program to receive a post-season ban.
Texas Southern, Southeastern Louisiana and UAB received conditional waivers to bypass a post-season ban, instead receiving scholarship and practice time penalties. 

Colorado State and Jacksonville State, from the Ohio Valley Conference, received full waivers after failing to meet academic demands.

As far as SIUE goes, we have to keep in mind what season these numbers were from, and to me it was fairly obvious academics were not high on that particular team’s list.

As a refresher, let’s look at the roster:

Stineman (Fr.) Dunson (Fr.) Garriott (Fr.) Church (So.) Jones (Jr.) Bundalo (So.) Young (Fr.) Wellington (Jr.) Boarden (So.) Edmison (Sr.) McCleary (Jr.) Yelovich (Fr.) Bowles (Jr). Williams (Redshirt Fr.)

Okay, what is this team’s retention rate? Dunson, Garriott and Wellington all transferred to Junior Colleges after this season. Williams did the same, and was kicked off of the team with just a few games to go. So retention wise, 2008-2009 was a terrible year for SIUE basketball, and things seem to be getting back on track.

Schools can not incur penalties from the APR until a four year historical period of statistics is compiled. SIUE has just one.

The stats now stay with the coaches wherever they go, a smart decision in my mind by the NCAA.

From the looks of this, it is an isolated issue, and SIUE will be okay. We could have seen this coming with all of the turnover from that season. I will look into it a little bit further, but as far as I can tell the transfers are the culprits.

Here are the APR numbers for every program at SIUE, per the NCAA.

Baseball	965
Men’s Basketball	906
Men’s Golf	917
Men’s Soccer	978
Men’s Tennis	1,000
Men’s Track (indoor)	985
Men’s Track (outdoor)	985
Softball	1,000
Women’s Basketball	1,000
Women’s Cross Country	1,000
Women’s Golf	1,000
Women’s Soccer	988
Women’s Tennis	1,000
Women’s Track (indoor)	985
Women’s Track (outdoor)	1,000
Volleyball	976

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