Our Basketball Team Proves

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That must mean one of our guys will end up the National Player of the Year.

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Except baseball. Y'all are pretty bad as of late

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Financial inequalities don’t just exist between the upper and lower echelons of the sport. They’re endemic even among the heaviest of hitters, in the center of college baseball: The Southeastern Conference.sec_base_2015_dribbble_hd_1x

Those inequalities stem largely from “lottery scholarships” widespread across the south.

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Georgia’s HOPE Program and South Carolina’s LIFE Scholarship are lottery-funded, but Louisiana’s TOPS is not—but the programs tend to be lumped together under that moniker. And they do share a number of characteristics: publicly funded, available primarily to residents of each state and with academic standards low enough to make them accessible to a large portion of students. They also apply to both public and private universities, despite being state programs.

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But the inequality between the programs pales in comparison to the disadvantages faced by teams in Mississippi and Alabama, two states without state lotteries and consequently without higher education scholarship programs.

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