Even though South Carolina closed the football season with five straight losses and no bowl game, the Gamecocks showed improvement in the classroom last semester.Coach Steve Spurrier's team posted a grade-point average of 2.540 for the fall semester, which the school said was the team's best in-season performance ever. Their grades are up from the 2.305 the team had during fall 2006. Spurrier had said Thursday that 10 players graduated last month and six of seven seniors left are on track to get their degrees in May.In all, 13 of the athletic department's 17 teams had cumulative grades of 3.0 or better for the most recently concluded semester.Women's golf led the way with a GPA of 3.481 with men's golf right behind at 3.478. Next were softball (3.461) and volleyball (3.452), with men's tennis (3.415) rounding out the top five.After that came equestrian (3.335), women's soccer (3.239), men's soccer (3.215), women's track and field (3.191), women's swimming and diving (3.135), men's track and field (3.067), and baseball (3.006).Along with football, other programs that did not reach at 3.0 were men's swimming and diving (2.970), women's basketball (2.757) and men's basketball (2.449).For the semester, South Carolina said its 206 female student athletes had a mean GPA of 3.235 while the department's 276 men had a mean GPA of 2.839.The overall mean GPA for the university's 18,232 students this past fall was 3.148.
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