Word: ncaas
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...only the first month of the new year and the NCAA has already created an uproar...
Starting in 1991 and 1992, the American South and Big South will qualify for automatic berths for the NCAA basketball tournament. Since the NCAA cannot increase the number of automatic bids given to conference champions until 1998, a pair of other conferences will lose their automatic bids...
...NCAA Executive Committee has already made a tentative decision on the problem of deciding who loses the bid. It may choose conferences each year the same way the Division I men's basketball committee selects at-large teams--on the basis of a conference's strength, and its teams' records against outside competition, including wins against top-50 teams...
...weeks ago, the Supreme Court vouched for the rulemaker's omnipotence, deciding against Nevada-Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian in his twelve-year fight for due process as opposed to arbitrary suspensions. It may be an accident of timing, but almost from the moment of the decision, the NCAA has seemed to flex its muscles with increased vigor -- and the college-sports lockup has swelled. Brooklyn College, Illinois, Marist College, Minnesota, Texas A & M, Arizona State, Cleveland State, Cincinnati, Houston, West Texas State, Kansas and Oklahoma represent the year's catch in the NCAA's crusade, according...
That qualifies as a quaint notion today. But not to Dick Schultz, 59, a basketball and baseball coach for 25 years and the NCAA's executive director for the past 16 months. He has put the membership (800 colleges and universities) on plain notice: "For willful cheating, severe penalties." Oklahoma's sentence for being caught on 20 varieties of recruiting violations includes a year's television blackout and two missed bowl opportunities (consider the potential revenue lost: just one Orange Bowl appearance is worth $2.75 million a team). The punishment prompted Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan to blurt, "They wanted...