University of Cincinnati head men’s basketball coach Mick Cronin has been publicly reprimanded for misconduct during the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Specifically, the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee said...
The NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL and the NHL) today filed a complaint against New Jersey state officials in federal court in Trenton, NJ seeking to stop the state from implementing sports betting on...
Manhattanville College failed to monitor its financial aid process, which led to student-athletes receiving more financial aid awards than the general student body, according to findings by the NCAA Division III Committee on Infractions...
Nearly 130 NCAA female student-athletes representing multiple sports across NCAA Divisions I, II and III have been selected as 2012 Woman of the Year honorees by their athletics conferences and by independent schools. Next, the Woman of...
NCAA student-athletes - there are at least 132 current or enrolled student-athletes participating in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London – had an impressive first week of competition. Through Sunday, NCAA student-athletes have combined to...
By Brian Hendrickson I kept thinking about how a young student-athlete could find this experience embarrassing and awkward as I stood in the restroom of Drake University’s tennis center last June, providing the first athletics-event drug...
By Gary Brown SSF helps schools combat economic crisis The Supplemental Support Fund was created in 2007 to support efforts to invest in student-athletes’ academic success at limited-resource schools in Division I and to meet increasing...
By Greg Johnson Looking to increase the pace of play in the sport, the Men’s Lacrosse Rules Committee recommended a 30-second countdown for teams to take a shot after the referee has issued a stall warning. All rules recommendations by the...
By Gary Brown Simon Fraser University of Burnaby, B.C., effectively was approved as the NCAA’s first international member Wednesday when the NCAA Executive Committee supported modifying the Association’s accreditation policies to account...
The Division I Board of Directors on Thursday endorsed sweeping recommendations to change the NCAA’s enforcement model. The Board stopped short of a binding vote, allowing the membership until its October meeting to voice final feedback on...
By Greg Johnson A new selection process to be followed only in the event that bowl-eligible teams in the Football Bowl Subdivison are exhausted was approved Thursday by the Division I Board of Directors. The board was concerned that...
The NCAA today selected former U.S. Senator George Mitchell as the independent Athletics Integrity Monitor at Penn State. Mitchell’s five-year appointment begins immediately. As Athletics Integrity Monitor, Mitchell will evaluate Penn...
The NCAA Division III National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the NCAA Division III Management Council led a softball event for about 30 Special Olympics athletes from Hamilton County on July 22. About 20 SAAC members, 15...
The NCAA Executive Committee elected Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon as its next chair, effective immediately. Simon replaces Oregon State President Ed Ray, whose term on the Executive Committee expired at the end of the group’s...
Five student-athletes representing all three membership divisions have been honored with NCAA Sportsmanship Awards for notable displays of sporting behavior. The Association also recognized Belmont men’s basketball coach Rick Byrd with the...
By Greg Johnson The Playing Rules Oversight Panel during its conference call July 19 approved proposals aimed at increasing offensive opportunities in ice hockey next season. Among the changes is to allow some displacement of the goal...
The University of Central Florida exhibited a lack of institutional control and was responsible for impermissible recruiting activities and extra benefits, according to a decision announced today by the Division I Committee on Infractions...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick A vital part of the work of the Rules and Enforcement working groups has been collecting feedback from the membership about both the concepts and the more developed ideas the groups are considering. The feedback...
By Gary Brown Coaches in just about any college sport these days are responsible for more than just X’s and O’s. They’re also accountable for marketing their programs, especially for Olympic or non-revenue sports that don’t get the bulk of...
The NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification announced decisions today concerning the status of three member institutions in the division’s athletics certification process. A certified designation denotes that an institution...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Members of the Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee recently got a chance to see how much joy their fundraising can create when they met 13-year-old Seth Kussow, who was granted a wish in January to...
By Gary Brown Division III Management Council members at their meeting on Monday agreed to submit a new legislative proposal regarding sickle cell trait status that emphasizes an educational component and a phased-in confirmation approach...
By Gary Brown In addition to discussing concepts that shape a 2013 Convention proposal related to sickle cell trait confirmation , the Division III Management Council at its meeting on Monday and Tuesday reviewed other legislation on track...
By Gary Brown The Division III Management Council has approved a new format for the men’s basketball championship this coming year to accommodate the Division III championship game being played in conjunction with the 75th men’s basketball...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Eight months after she graduated from Cornell with a consumer economics degree, Noreen Morris was working out of an office building in downtown Boston, making 60 to 80 phone calls a day to try to convince people...
