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2010: The reach and visibility of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship expands with the announcement of a new 14-year, $10.8 billion television, Internet and wireless rights agreement with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting System.

March 17-20, 2010: Emory wins the first of 10 straight team titles in the Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

April 27, 2010: Mark A. Emmert, president of the University of Washington, is named the fifth NCAA president. He takes over the office’s duties Oct. 5, 2010.

April 2012: Legendary Tennessee Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt retires after 38 years of coaching. Summitt accumulated 1,098 wins, which was a record for any NCAA men’s or women’s basketball coach at the time of her retirement. She led Tennessee to eight NCAA national championships.

November 2012: College Football Hall of Fame coach John Gagliardi completes his 65th and final season as a college coach with a 489-138-11 career record. Gagliardi coached Saint John’s (Minnesota) from 1953 to 2012 and Carroll College in Montana from 1949 to 1952.

2013: The NCAA Sport Science Institute is created to develop interassociation consensus documents and educational resources to assist member schools in their efforts to ensure student-athlete health and safety.

May 2014: The NCAA and Department of Defense announce the Grand Alliance, a joint initiative aimed at enhancing research into concussions and developing testing and prevention strategies for traumatic brain injuries. The alliance includes the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium, the largest concussion and repetitive head impact study in history.

Aug. 7, 2014: The Division I Board of Directors restructures how schools and conferences govern themselves, paving the way for student-athletes to have a voice and a vote at every level of decision-making. The new structure leads to the creation of the Division I Council, with seven committees reporting to it.

2014: The NCAA hits a record high of $989 million in net revenue.

April 5, 2016: Coach Geno Auriemma leads UConn to an 82-51 win over Syracuse in the Women’s Final Four to capture the program’s fourth consecutive NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship. The victory is also Auriemma’s 11th overall national title, which is the most in NCAA basketball, breaking the mark of John Wooden, who led the UCLA men’s team to 10 NCAA championships.

April 2016: The Board of Governors announces new requirements for host cities that include protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for all people involved in the event. This decision was prompted by several states passing laws that permit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in accordance with religious beliefs.

April 12, 2016: The NCAA announces an eight-year, $8.8 billion extension of its multimedia rights agreement with CBS Sports and Turner, a division of Time Warner, for the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. The new contract extends the agreement through 2032.

May 6-8, 2016: Beach volleyball, the 90th NCAA championship, begins play in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The sport was placed on the NCAA emerging sports for women list in 2009 and reached championship status faster than any sport on the list. Southern California defeats Florida State 3-0 in the final dual to win the first NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship and begins the tradition of the national championship team jumping into the Gulf of Mexico.

October 2017: In response to allegations and an FBI investigation, the NCAA forms the independent Commission on College Basketball, chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The commission is charged with examining the relationship among youth basketball organizations, the NCAA and its member schools, agents, shoe companies and the NBA and recommending comprehensive changes.

Jan. 20, 2018: The Division II membership approves allowing schools from Mexico to apply for membership.

August 2018: The NCAA Board of Governors and Division I Board of Directors adopt a series of changes in response to the Commission on College Basketball recommendations. Changes include adding independent members to the Board of Governors, providing college basketball players more flexibility to decide their futures, making the investigations and infractions process more efficient, and setting stronger penalties for those who break the rules. 


Sources: “In the Arena: The NCAA’s First Century” by Joseph N. Crowley, NCAA News and Champion magazine archives, the NCAA Media Center, and NCAA record books