Despite one of the lowest single-year Academic Progress Rate scores in school history, the University of Hawaii men’s basketball team avoided the possibility of postseason sanctions resulting from last year’s turnover in players.

The Rainbow Warriors’ four-year rolling average of 937 was seven points above the minimum standard despite a single-year score of 886 for the 2015-16 period.

The 886 resulted in large part due to five underclassmen leaving UH while the program was under threat of a postseason ban, some of them facing academic ineligibility.

Schools that had multi-year scores below 930 (out of 1,000) faced sanctions, including loss of postseason eligibility, practice and playing time.

The NCAA said 17 teams across various sports will be ineligible for the postseason in 2017-18.

The overall four-year average APR for member schools was 981, and 966 for men’s basketball.

The Academic Progress Rate (APR) is an NCAA metric for measuring progress toward graduation. The NCAA says 930 equates to a 50 percent graduation rate.

Scholarship athletes each semester earn one point for maintaining eligibility and another point for staying in school or graduating. The Rainbow Wahine golf and tennis programs posted scores of 1,000.

Meanwhile, UH football ranked fourth in the 10-member Mountain West Conference at 968.

“We continue to better our scores,” athletic director David Matlin said in a release. “Our focus is improving retention and providing the best environment for our student-athletes to thrive and succeed. Graduation is the goal and we will be celebrating that achievement with significant number of graduates this Saturday.”

Faculty Athletic Representative David Ericson added, “In particular, we are heartened by the continuous improvement in the APR score by the football team. We were already above many of our peers, but this shows that we are moving even higher under the leadership of Coach (Nick) Rolovich.”