Academic trouble is leading to athletic trouble for Alcorn State and a few other schools in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Alcorn’s men’s basketball team received a postseason ban for the 2015-16 season when its Academic Progress Report score stayed below the NCAA’s threshold of 930 for the second consecutive year.

APR measures the academic progress of student-athletes. Every Division I team is scored, with student-athletes earning one point each semester they remain eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating.

Teams are subject to NCAA penalties if their multi-year APR falls below 930. Alcorn’s basketball team had a score of 893 in 2012-13, and 839 for 2013-14. The latter is the academic year this year’s APR is based on.

The low APR made Alcorn’s basketball team eligible for a level two penalty, which includes restrictions on practice time and a postseason ban.

No other athletic programs at Alcorn State were sanctioned. The football program, which had a 915 APR in 2012-13, raised that to 931 in 2013-14.

Women’s tennis had the highest APR of the school’s programs, at 991 — a perfect score is 1,000 — and women’s track was at 990.

Women’s volleyball, which had a level one penalty last year that included limits on practice time, raised its APR from 894 to 944.

Alcorn’s men’s basketball team was not the only SWAC program penalized Wednesday.

Mississippi Valley State’s baseball team had an APR of 867 and is facing a level three penalty that could include scholarship reductions and a multiple-year postseason ban. It will be ineligible for the 2016 postseason.

Alabama State’s football team was also given a postseason ban for the 2015 season, as were men’s track and field and golf programs at Prairie View A&M.

A total of 21 schools were facing some APR penalties, but only five programs ­— Alabama State football, Mississippi Valley State baseball, Savannah State football and Florida A&M men’s basketball — were in line to receive level three sanctions.

The rest of Mississippi’s athletic programs at its six Division I universities — Alcorn, Valley, Jackson State, Southern Miss, Mississippi State and Ole Miss — received passing grades on their APR scores.

Jackson State had perfect scores in men’s golf, women’s tennis and women’s cross country.

Other perfect scores were attained by the men’s golf teams at Valley and Southern Miss and the Southern Miss women’s volleyball team.