Inside Higher Education, The Academic Performance Tournament:

For the sixth year, Inside Higher Ed presents the Academic Performance Tournament — our take on what the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament would look like if teams advanced based on their outcomes in the classroom.

The winners in our bracket were determined using the NCAA’s multi-year Academic Progress Rate, a nationally comparable score that gives points to teams whose players stay in good academic standing and remain enrolled from semester to semester. Ties were broken using the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate, which considers transfers and does not punish teams whose athletes leave college before graduation if they leave in good academic standing.

The Final Four are Butler, Kansas, Princeton, and Texas, with Butler the National Champion [click on bracket to enlarge]: