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WASHINGTON, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights: 10 of the 68 men's basketball teams in the 2011 "March Madness" tournament would be ineligible under the benchmark recommended by the Knight Commission and backed by Secretary Duncan.Of the $409 million the NCAA awarded for basketball success in the past five tournaments, nearly $179 million or nearly 44 percent of the total, was earned by teams not on track to graduate at least 50 percent of their players.