Most top Division I schools, Syracuse included, have traditionally bypassed junior-college — generally referred to as juco — athletes in favor of prep school alternatives. But new legislation by the NCAA could reverse that trend, with more athletes perhaps forced to take the juco route if they are not qualified academically. While the legislation is intended to be imposed on all sports, basketball may be the hardest hit. The legislation serves to eliminate those prep schools that have been termed “diploma mills,” that is, they exist solely for the purpose of graduating athletes and have little, if any, actual educational benefit.
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