NCAA DIVISION I MEN?S BASKETBALL COMMITTEE
REVISIONS TO OPENING ROUND
After a number of discussions with the Division I membership, the NCAA Division I Men?s Basketball Committee discussed the opening-round game and ways to assure the most positive experience for the student-athletes and institutions involved each year.
From the discussions, the following items will be pursued:
Action Item for Board of Directors ? 2008 Basketball Distribution.
1. The committee hereby requests that the NCAA Division Board of Directors add a single unit, beginning with the 2008 game, to be awarded to the winner of the opening-round game. In analyzing the unit adjustment, the committee reviewed the following projection:
Informational Items:
2. The staff and committee will explore ways to work with ESPN to more effectively increase awareness of the game. As such, it might be possible that the game would be used to also offer analysis/comments about the NIT as well as the men?s and women?s championships starting in the coming days.
3. If possible, the committee might announce the two participating teams during the noon Sunday show with CBS. There would be years in which this would be possible; similarly, there might be circumstances which prevent it from time to time.
4. To the extent
practicable, assure that the two teams would be chartered to
The committee strongly believes that the approaches outlined herein would serve the best interests of the student-athletes, the game, the championships and circumstances of the opening-round game.