The University of Hawaii is closely eyeing the posting of semester grades this week amid the large turnover in its men’s basketball team.

At issue is the team’s upcoming Academic Progress Rate, a key NCAA-mandated metric for assessing academic progress that carries scholarship and postseason penalties for under-performing programs.

Teams must achieve a minimum 930 average over a four-year span or 940 over a two-year period or risk sanctions.

UH was listed at 944 for the 2014-15 academic year in results posted last month by the NCAA.

A December 2015 report to the UH Faculty Senate noted, “none of our teams, nor our sports program as a whole, is in danger of falling below (benchmarks), though we are still worried about men’s basketball.”

Since then, five scholarship players have announced departures from the program with eligibility remaining, two of them for shots at professional basketball. Not all of them returned to campus after the team’s historic NCAA postseason run.

“Obviously, there are some issues with some of the players going pro based upon retention points, so a lot of it depends upon (how) people finished off (the semester),” athletic director David Matlin said. “That (the finish) is definitely an area of focus.”

Under the APR, each player receiving athletic-related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible. A team’s total points are divided by points possible and multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team’s APR. In addition to a team’s current-year APR, the NCAA says a rolling four-year APR also is used to measure performance.

Grades for the semester were to be posted by the close of business Tuesday.

“After they are all in, we are going to huddle and see where we are at,” Matlin said. “I think, in terms of the (four-year) rolling average we will be OK. But there is still work to be done in that area.”

Matlin said UH also is researching the cases of some past players to see if bonus points can be gained to help boost its total. “It is a fluid deal,” Matlin said.

Men’s basketball was assessed a scholarship reduction penalty in 2006-07 as a result of a low four-year average.