NCAA announces Final Four-related events scheduled for Indy
The fan-friendly events are scheduled to take place in conjunction with the 2026 Men’s Final Four basketball tournament in Indianapolis.
The fan-friendly events are scheduled to take place in conjunction with the 2026 Men’s Final Four basketball tournament in Indianapolis.
The Be Better Campaign will celebrate professionals who promote personal growth, civic pride and mentorship in the same way Morris did, including through his work with the Indiana Pacers.
The bill would provide limited antitrust exemption for the NCAA, override state laws governing paying players in favor of one national statute and remove the possibility of athletes being considered employees of their schools.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA said the three Division I players bet on one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so during the 2024-25 regular season. Two of them manipulated their performances to ensure certain bets were won.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the Indianapolis-based NCAA violates U.S. antitrust laws with how its redshirt rule covers playing time for athletes during five seasons of eligibility.
Sen. Maria Cantwell warned of a two-tier college sports system with haves and have-nots if a proposed bill to regulate the industry passes without changes.
The lawmakers asked how college sports’ major governing body plans to protect the interests of female athletes as the largest portion of NIL and revenue-sharing payments continue to be directed to male athletes.
Brian Higgins is the NCAA’s senior vice president of business performance and oversees the organization’s data collection and analysis work.
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.
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.
The NCAA said expansion to 72 or 76 teams could still be considered prior to the 2027 tournaments.
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.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA would like Congress to grant limited liability protection to help address all the lawsuits over eligibility.
Uncertainty over a key element of the $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement that is reshaping college sports has placed recruiters on a tightrope.
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.
The shift comes as the Indianapolis-based organization grapples with the growth of legalized gambling across the United States.
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.
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.
The request for plaintiff legal fees in the House vs. NCAA case, approved Friday night, struck experts in class-action litigation as reasonable.
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.