Topic: National Collegiate Athletic Association
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men's college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn't go over well with the NCAA and coaches preparing for ...
It happens nearly every year: an unheralded player, maybe from a school few people know about, goes on a scoring tear or single-handedly carries his team through a couple of rounds of the NCAA tournament. Two years ago, little Stephen Curry from Davidson dashed ...
A new study shows players on the teams headed to the NCAA women's tournament are graduating at a higher rate than those in the men's field. An annual report released Tuesday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of ...
States need to offer financial incentives for major sports events if they want to improve their chances of hosting future NCAA Final Four basketball tournaments, an NCAA executive said Tuesday. Greg Shaheen, who oversees the NCAA's Division I men's basketball tournament, flew ...
