By Brian Hendrickson NCAA.org Perceptions used to hurt Billy Mills, make him feel devalued, even led him to thoughts of suicide. Then the former All-American distance runner at Kansas realized he could draw strength from them. Now an...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Men’s basketball teams will be allowed to begin their first practice – celebrated at many schools with Midnight Madness events – possibly up to two weeks earlier than in the past, under a proposal advancing in...
By Greg Johnson The Wrestling Rules Committee has recommended making the mat-side video review rule an option for use beginning in the 2013-14 season, except at open tournaments. Under the proposal, which must be approved by the Playing...
In a recent Miami Herald story that also ran in other media outlets, columnist Greg Cote misstated basic, longstanding facts about the NCAA infractions process. While the NCAA enforcement staff gathers the facts of a case, the Committee on...
“Muleriders in Magnolia,” an outreach program that consolidated community-outreach efforts at Southern Arkansas, has been recognized as the 2013 winner of the Division II Community Engagement Award of Excellence. Southern Arkansas was...
College athletics administrators, subject matter experts and keynote speakers will convene at the NCAA headquarters to discuss inclusion efforts surrounding the educational and professional environments in intercollegiate athletics at the...
The same day and as soon as it learned that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed the Institution of Higher Education Consent Decree Endowment Act (the “Endowment Act”) into law, the NCAA asserting that the Endowment Act was...
By David Pickle NCAA.org It’s a familiar story. Girl meets boy. Girl marries at 18, has a family and then divorces. Girl is without a college education and supporting three children. Girl becomes a college president. Maybe it’s not so...
By Jack Copeland NCAA.org Two Case Western Reserve student-athletes’ efforts to provide soccer equipment for Kenyan youths – including enlistment of University Athletic Association rivals in the project – is the focus of an article...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Preparation makes perfect when it comes to producing and broadcasting the Men’s Final Four. From Mark Wolff, CBS’ coordinating producer of college basketball, throughout the entire television crew in Atlanta to...
By Kat Krtnick Yesterday was likely the biggest game of their careers. For most, it was probably the first time they competed in an NBA arena, in front of 6,300 fans and on live television. That’s even without the flashing lights and...
Also for the first time in the four-year history of the award, the men’s and women’s basketball recipients were from the same school. Louisville’s Wayne Blackshear was presented with the men’s basketball Elite 89 award on Thursday evening...
By Kate Carrico NCAA.org Each team competing in the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Elite Eight last week in San Antonio received a commemorative patch to wear on their uniforms. But for the Western Washington squad, the Elite Eight...
By Greg Johnson Pioneers who helped build women’s basketball through their accomplishments on and off the court will be honored during halftime of the Women’s Final Four championship game in New Orleans Tuesday night. Among the honorees...
By Greg Johnson Pioneers who helped build women’s basketball through their accomplishments on and off the court will be honored during halftime of the Women’s Final Four championship game in New Orleans Tuesday night. Among the honorees...
By Joey Lamar For NCAA.org Thump! Barvenia Wooten didn’t hear a thing. Wooten was too focused on winning the 1982 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament championship. With her Virginia Union Panthers leading...
Wayne Blackshear, a sophomore at the University of Louisville, is the recipient of the Elite 89 award for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. The Elite 89 award, founded by the NCAA, recognizes the true essence of the...
NCAA.org By Kat Krtnick As part of the 75th Celebration of March Madness, for first time in history, the NCAA Divisions I, II and III men’s basketball championships will be played in the same city during the same weekend. The brilliant...
Mike Racy, vice president for Division II, announced he will leave the NCAA in July to become chief strategy officer at the University of Central Missouri. Under Racy’s leadership, Division II developed and implemented a groundbreaking...
On February 20, 2013, Pennsylvania Governor Thomas W. Corbett, Jr. signed the Pennsylvania Institution of Higher Education Consent Decree Endowment Act, a law specifically designed to disrupt the contractual relationship between the NCAA...
By Greg Johnson As part of the 2013 Women’s Final Four Salute Premiere Friday night, four members of the New Orleans community will be honored during the festivities at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans. The Salute Heroes being honored are...
Last year was the 75th anniversary of the Division I NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The lists were plentiful regarding the Final Four's greatest hits. Since 1939, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship has grown into one of...
By Matt Velazquez NCAA.org Sheila Baxter faced an important decision in the spring of 1973. A standout high school basketball player in Franklin, Va., Baxter had the ability to play at the highest level of college basketball and had to...
By Sam King For NCAA.org Collin Mayer isn’t quite the golfer he was three years ago, but his skills on the links still come in handy in the business world. The 2010 St. Edward’s University graduate is just three years removed from being...
By Brian Burnsed Some turnovers matter. Usually, they are unremarkable. They occur countless times on winter nights in cinderblock-walled high school basketball gyms and raucous college arenas across the nation. They are observed, noted in...
