deployment in the wintry Kashmir valley. News channels endlessly replayed grim footage of the carnage and moving scenes from funerals across the country. The toll was the highest for a single attack on the security forces in three decades of unrest in the picturesque valley, a densely settled part of Jammu & Kashmir, a former princely state that was split unhappily between India and Pakistan after their independence in 1947.

The bomber himself was Indian. But the target of Indian anger is still understandable. Pakistan has for years covertly helped militants infiltrate the Indian-administered, Muslim-majority valley. Jaish-e-Muhammad, the group that claimed responsibility for the bus attack, is guilty of some of the worst atrocities in a 30-year conflict in Kashmir that has taken some 45,000-70,000 lives. After dropping, theThirty-six NCAA teams in Division I will be ineligible for 2014-15 postseason competition after falling short of their multi-year Academic Progress Rates (APR) standards. Oklahoma State football, a Bowl Championship Series contender in recent years, almost became the 37th, but avoided the ban by 3.54 points.

Nine football teams are among the 36, most notably UNLV and Idaho. There will also be eight men's basketball teams banned from competing in the NCAA tournament: Alabama State, Appalachian State, Florida A&M, Houston Baptist, Lamar, San Jose State, Central Arkansas and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The number – up from 13 last season – is a significant increase but it does not come as a surprise, as the NCAA has raised its multi-year benchmark from 900 to 930 (or a 940 average over the past two