Villanova guard Corey Fisher drives the lane for a basket as Notre Dame guard Ryan Ayres defends late in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Monday, March 2, 2009, in South Bend, Ind. Villanova won 77-60.
(AP Photo/Joe Raymond)
The Brigham Young University men's basketball team ranks second in winning percentage among universities with religious affliations, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
"The top winning percentage belongs to the Vincentians (.611), a Catholic order, which includes Big East programs St. Johns and DePaul. The Augustinians, another Catholic order, have a winning percentage of .641, but they are represented only by Villanova," wrote WSJ reporter Jared Diamond.
BYU, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has a winning percentage of .620.
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How is a .611 winning percentage higher than .641 or .620? Am I missing something?
A-ha. The excerpt here is missing the beginning of the sentence, "Among the groups that have more than one Division I basketball school..." The excerpt makes no sense without that.
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