INDIANAPOLIS — Myles Brand sees the academic gains most college teams are making as a sign of progress.

He's also concerned about the recurring problems that plague some schools, some teams and one sport in particular: men's basketball.

The most troubling part was the listing of 26 teams which now face additional reductions in practice time and scholarships while finding themselves on the brink of a possible postseason ban because of consistently poor APR scores. If those 26 schools do not improve their APR scores drastically by next year, they will be left out of postseason play in 2009-10.

Nearly 150 other teams face potential scholarship losses as early as next season, and more than 700 teams finished with scores below the NCAA's mandated cutline of 925.