Indentured service?

$8.7 billion

Combined revenue of the NCAA’s 346 Division I athletic departments in 2010

$1.2 million

Value of each member of the 2010 Duke University men’s basketball team if the NCAA operated under the same revenue sharing model used by the National Basketball Association

$27,923

Median annual cost of a Division I athlete’s grant-in-aid package

90

Percent of the NCAA’s athletic revenue that is produced by less than 1 percent of its athletes

2

Times the average salary of a full professor that Harvard University paid its first head football coach, Bill Reid, in 1905

97

Percentage of white players at basketball programs in this year’s NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 who earn their degree within six years

57

Percentage of black players at basketball programs in this year’s NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 who earn their degree within six years

56

Percentage of all students who enter four-year universities who graduate within six years

Sources: St. Louis Federal Reserve; Columbia Journalism Review; Real Sports; USA Today; Indianapolis Star; The Atlantic; “Pathways to Prosperity,” Harvard Graduate School of Education