MIKE LOPRESTI: Singer? Lawn boy? Coaches followed diverse paths
They’ll lead their new basketball teams with lessons learned on the Hoosier hardwood and beyond.
They’ll lead their new basketball teams with lessons learned on the Hoosier hardwood and beyond.
Hours after former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented the Commission on College Basketball’s sweeping recommendations for reforming a sport weighed down by corruption, NCAA leaders set in motion the process for turning those ideas into reality.
The Commission on College Basketball didn’t say whether college athletes should be able to cash in on their names, images and likenesses, but Condoleezza Rice's remarks to the Indianapolis-based NCAA suggested she thinks it is good idea.
The Commission on College Basketball, led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, sharply directed the Indianapolis-based NCAA to take control of the sport, calling for sweeping reforms. It called the environment surrounding college basketball “a toxic mix of perverse incentives to cheat.”
On Wednesday morning, the commission headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will present its proposed reforms to university presidents of the NCAA Board of Governors and the Division I Board of Directors at the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis.
Jennifer Q. Smith says making costumes for mascots like the Pacers’ Boomer is a serious business.
The 30 percent drop is likely due to a combination of a relatively non-competitive game and its airing on a cable network instead of CBS, which showed last year’s game.
From exhiliration for Jackie Young and Tyra Buss to disappointment for Kyle Guy and Isaac Haas.
The NCAA is being pushed to put rules in place that would ban former offenders from competing in college athletics and sanction schools that fail to weed out potential predators. That would mean stepping into complicated territory.
Nine other universities—including three in Indiana—stand to make money off Loyola University’s unexpected march to college basketball’s Final Four
A federal judge in Oakland, California, on Wednesday refused a request from the Indianapolis-based NCAA to throw out the case and scheduled a trial.
Tom Crean, who was fired by Indiana University a year ago, agreed to a reported six-year deal with the University of Georgia worth $19.2 million.
A study of teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament shows that graduation rates for players have become stagnant and that the sport's governing body may need to raise academic standards to get them moving upward again.
The tournament has become so big that sports experts doubt a federal investigation alleging dozens of prominent players, coaches and schools broke NCAA rules will hurt sponsor support.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA raised most of the revenue from its television deal for the men's basketball tournament.
As part of a strategic plan to guide it into the future, the 99-year-old golf club has an arrangement to share the 9,200-square-foot indoor training facility with Butler University, which uses Highland as its home course.
NCAA President Mark Emmert said he’s hopeful the scandal roiling college basketball will lead to major rule changes, but he does not think the Indianapolis-based NCAA is in crisis.
Many agree that college basketball should be overhauled, but there’s no consensus on how to repair the system.
While the sport covered a wide range of categories, it specifically pointed to a pair of concerns: hiring for athletic directors and Division I men's basketball coaches. The study also looked at hiring for the NCAA's Indianapolis-based headquarters.
In most places, it was a typical day of college basketball on Saturday. Arenas were packed, fans were cheering and schools were competing. There was little visible hangover from the latest developments in the federal investigation of corruption in college basketball.