16M and growing: What’s driving the NCAA’s effort to build its fan database?
Brian Higgins is the NCAA’s senior vice president of business performance and oversees the organization’s data collection and analysis work.
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Indy-based NCAA fines Michigan football millions, coach suspended in sign-stealing scandal
The Indianapolis-based NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for three games for a sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over the program for nearly two years.
In NCAA streamlining, big conferences get more power, but not everything they wanted
The effort is the latest in an ongoing push to give the biggest, football-playing schools more autonomy in making decisions across the college landscape.
NCAA seeks safe bet amid surge in sports gambling
The organization’s once-icy relationship with the sports betting industry is beginning to thaw, but the Indianapolis-based nonprofit is still holding legalized gambling at arm’s length as it evaluates the impact on college sports.
Football season looms with no clear guidance over eligibility battles from NCAA
The Indianapolis-based NCAA would like Congress to grant limited liability protection to help address all the lawsuits over eligibility.
Coaches wait for key decision to learn whether they can keep NIL promises made to recruits
Uncertainty over a key element of the $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement that is reshaping college sports has placed recruiters on a tightrope.
UIndy hosts girls basketball camp for top international high school players
More than 25 different countries and territories were represented at the camp—which is organized by the WNBA, NBA and International Basketball Federation. Last year, 30 participants gained college scholarships.
New college sports agency rejecting some athlete NIL deals with donor-backed collectives
The rejected deals hold no “valid business purpose,” the agency said, and don’t adhere to rules that call for outside NIL deals to be between players and companies that provide goods or services to the general public for profit.
March Madness expansion to 72 or 76 teams under consideration
NCAA President Charlie Baker said the organization has had “good conversations” about expansion with TV partners CBS and Warner Bros., whose deal runs through 2032 at the cost of around $1.1 billion a year.
NCAA considering proposal to allow college athletes, staff to bet on pro sports
The shift comes as the Indianapolis-based organization grapples with the growth of legalized gambling across the United States.
Democrats criticize latest effort by Congress to regulate college sports as setback for athletes
Three House committees are considering legislation that would create a national standard for name, image and likeness payments to athletes and protect the NCAA against future lawsuits.
Congress could soon introduce a very NCAA-friendly bill
On Saturday, NCAA President Charlie Baker sent a letter to members of Congress, reiterating his organization’s main requests and hammering the need for action.
Attorneys in NCAA antitrust case to share up to $725M in fees
The request for plaintiff legal fees in the House vs. NCAA case, approved Friday night, struck experts in class-action litigation as reasonable.
Federal judge approves $2.8B settlement, paving way for US colleges to pay athletes millions
The agreement brings a seismic shift to hundreds of schools that were forced to reckon with the reality that their players are the ones producing the billions in TV and other revenue.
IU Indianapolis hires Ben Howlett as hoops coach following dominant run at West Liberty
Howlett was 217-37 at West Liberty with eight straight Mountain East Conference regular-season titles and eight straight Division II NCAA Tournament appearances.
Power leagues look to bind schools to rules of $2.8B NCAA settlement, source says
The document would bind institutions to enforcement policies even if their state laws are contradictory and would require schools to waive their right to pursue legal challenges against the new enforcement entity, the College Sports Commission.
Fired IU Indy coach denies mistreating players, says he will appeal
IU Indianapolis Athletics said it received allegations from six individuals who played for the coach and that an investigation found his behavior did not meet the school’s standards.
IU Indianapolis fires basketball coach Corsaro over ‘treatment’ of players
Paul Corsaro went 10-24 overall and 6-14 in the Horizon League in his only season with the Jaguars.
Non-scholarship athletes argue proposal to fix roster-limit rule in lawsuit does not go far enough
Proposed roster caps have prevented U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken from approving a $2.78 billion settlement, which is designed to allow schools to pay players directly beginning later this year.
NCAA settlement plan for roster limits gets do-over to save players who lost spots on teams
Attorneys handling the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement proposed a massive do-over Wednesday when it comes to roster limits.