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SPORTS IN BRIEF

Bermuda's Jenaya Wade Fray and University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC) will kick off their postseason campaign with a date against the University of Kentucky tomorrow in NIT action.

UTC finished the 2008/09 season at the top of the Southern Conference regular season standings with a 17-3 in conference play and an overall record of 22-9.

However, losing in the semi-finals of the conference tournament to the College of Charleston 53-51, saw them not selected for the NCAA Women's tournament. Tournament champions Western Carolina qualified for the 'Big Dance', beating the College of Charleston 101-87 in overtime.

Wade-Fray lead the Lady Mocs in 3-pointers made this season with 58 on the year, was ranked sixth in the league with 12.7 points per game for the season, and named to the All-Conference team

The Lady Mocs claimed their 10th Southern Conference title this year. Wade Fray is currently the only female Bermudian basketball player playing Division I college basketball.

n Fourteen women's basketball teams in the NCAA tournament have perfect graduation rates.

That list includes the tournament's top seed, Connecticut. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida released a report Monday on tournament teams' graduation rates.

Of the other No. 1 seeds, Duke has a 90 percent graduation rate, Oklahoma is at 69 percent and Maryland is at 67 percent.

The other schools with 100 percent graduation rates are DePaul, Evansville, Florida, Lehigh, Marist, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Sacred Heart, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Vanderbilt and Villanova.

The graduation rates were based on whether freshmen who entered school between the 1998-99 and 2001-02 school years earned diplomas within six years.