The Nebraska women’s basketball team is one of 12 in the 2008 NCAA tournament to post a 100 percent graduation rate for its players, a study by Richard Lapchick of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows.

Lapchick’s study of tournament teams, which he released on Tuesday following the announcement of the 64-team NCAA field, showed the Huskers posted a perfect graduation rate among freshmen entering school from 1997 to 2001.

The 11 other schools that produced perfect graduation rates and earned bids to the tournament were Bucknell, Marist, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Robert Morris, San Diego, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas and Vanderbilt.

Among the No. 1 seeds in the women’s tournament, Connecticut had a 92 percent graduation rate, followed by Maryland (71 percent) and North Carolina (64 percent).