NCAA shakes up ad strategy
The NCAA for the first time this year debuted an ad campaign in the fall rather than during the Final Four basketball tourney. The NCAA has also turned to celebrity endorsers.
The NCAA for the first time this year debuted an ad campaign in the fall rather than during the Final Four basketball tourney. The NCAA has also turned to celebrity endorsers.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has followed the Indianapolis-based NCAA's lead and is removing all its athletic championships from North Carolina over a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA said the decision by its board of governors came "because of the cumulative actions taken by the state concerning civil rights protections."
Mark Lewis’ departure from the organization was as strange as his arrival four years ago. But it was certainly done with a lot less noise.
The most common infractions over the 61 years analyzed were recruiting inducements (57 percent), impermissible benefits (54 percent) and other recruiting violations (48 percent).
A woman who says she was raped by college football players nearly 20 years ago is asking the Indianapolis-based NCAA to ban sexually violent athletes.
The survey is an additional step under a new NCAA requirement for event hosts to provide a safe and discrimination-free environment for all athletes.
A former University of North Carolina football player has sued the Atlantic Coast Conference and the NCAA in federal court in Indianapolis, claiming his life changed after hits he took in practice and on the field caused concussions.
University of Louisville president James Ramsey is stepping down after 14 years in a massive shakeup of school leadership stemming from recent scandals, including one brought to light by an IBJ sister company.
The plan calls for a more than 66,000-square-foot addition to the football stadium.
Indianapolis-based IBJ Book Publishing LLC and author Dick Cady filed suit Friday in Jefferson Circuit Court, alleging the students sought notoriety for themselves and their attorneys and lacked proof of their allegations.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches announced an ad hoc committee that will work with the Indianapolis-based NCAA to discuss selection, seeding and bracketing processes.
The Big Ten Conference drew the highest number of fans, with slightly more than 3.1 million attending games and 11 of 14 schools averaging more than 10,000 per game.
University of Kentucky women's basketball coach Matthew Mitchell has hired Hall of Fame coach Lin Dunn, completing an overhaul of his staff.
The NCAA is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case that successfully challenged the association's use of names, images and likenesses of college athletes without compensation.
Local officials say Indianapolis should continue to host NCAA events despite rules adopted by the association on Wednesday to assure LGBT rights and protections.
The NCAA said it requires sites that are hosting events or bidding on them “to demonstrate how they will provide an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination.”
The NCAA's latest Academic Progress Rate numbers, released Wednesday, show that schools with less money continue to play catch-up even as athletes remain in school and work toward degrees at record rates.
An attorney representing two ex-University of North Carolina athletes says the school and Indianapolis-based NCAA are both responsible for UNC's long-running academic fraud scandal that he says denied athletes a quality education.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA on Tuesday announced an eight-year, $8.8 billion extension of its March Madness deal with CBS Sports and the Turner Broadcasting System.