UConn doesn’t qualify for the tournament because of below-standard academic results, but it requested a waiver last month.

The school proposed alternate penalties, including playing a shorter schedule next season, forfeiting the revenue awarded to the Big East for participating in the 2013 tournament, and barring coach Jim Calhoun from meeting off campus with prospective recruits during the fall 2012 contact period.

University president Susan Herbst said she’s disappointed by the decision of NCAA staff to reject that proposal, but said the school will appeal.

“I want to be clear that during my entire career as a scholar and a teacher, I have been in full support of high academic standards in collegiate athletics,’’ she said. “However, in this case, there are good students who could be penalized for the problematic behavior of students who have not been enrolled for years.’’

Under rules approved in October, a school must have a two-year average score of 930 or a four-year average of 900 on the NCAA’s annual Academic Progress Rate, which measures academic performance of student-athletes.

UConn’s men’s basketball scored 826 for the 2009-10 school year. UConn’s score for the 2010-11 school year is expected to be about 975.

That would not be high enough. It would give UConn a two-year score of 900.5 and a four-year average of 888.5.

Walter Harrison, chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance, has said that body will be meeting Feb. 20 to discuss whether to adjust reporting dates to allow schools to use their most recent data in qualifying for tournaments.