Kentucky Spring GPA: 2.18

Kentucky's spring GPA was released this week: 2.18. That's an increase from the 2.025 in the Fall, but still not stellar and far from the "amazing students" coach Calipari praised during the season. Kentucky as a whole for varsity sports was 3.04 the highest in Mitch Barnhardt's time at Kentucky.

If the grades of Daniel Orton are removed from the GPA, the team rebounds to a 2.35 - still a far cry from straight A's. John Wall, as previously stated on this site, announced via Twitter that he had received a 3.5 for the semister.

The team didn't comment on the scores, siting privacy conerns, but John Calipari wrote on his website:

One of the issues we face in basketball is that with such a relatively small number of athletes, a bad semester from one or two kids can bring down the GPA significantly," Calipari wrote on his Web site. "A GPA just under 2.2 is not what we hoped for. But for the most part, every player improved from the fall semester, and most finished strong.

President Lee Todd expressed his displeasure in the scores during the Fall and is looking for methods of increasing the academic progress of the team.