The NCAA’s Division I Transformation Committee, the entity tasked with charting the course for the future of Division I over the past year, has finished its final report and submitted its reform recommendations to the D-I Board of Directors. The Board has been briefed but will formally consider the recommendations at its meeting next week at the NCAA’s annual convention.
Among the recommendations were a push for D-I team sports sponsored by more than 200 institutions to consider expanding their postseason fields — clearing the way for sports such as basketball and baseball to expand their tournaments, if desired — and an advisement that football governance remain under the purview of the NCAA.
“There’s a certain magic to college sports that cannot be easily described,” Transformation Committee co-chair Julie Cromer said. “We think the big tent — a large, diverse Division I — is part of that magic. It’s worth working through the issues we see today to keep it intact.”
Here’s what you need to know:
- The Transformation Committee is recommending that D-I team sports sponsored by more than 200 institutions should try to implement a postseason that includes 25 percent of the teams that meet the Division I standard in the sport. Final decisions on changes to…
