Women's Basketball Seeks 48-Team Tournament Field
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Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association July 22,1987, Votume 24 Number 27 Women’s basketball seeks Officer, Council nominations open The NCAA Nominating Com- State University, Boone, North Car- University; ChTrles Whitcomb San mittee is accepting nominations for olina 28608(chair of the Nominating Jose State University; the individual 48-team tournament field Division III vice-president and 13 Committee) or to any member of named by the Council to replace The Division I Women’s Bas- bution of strength and numbers Council positions (12 with term ex- the committee. Nominations also Jack V. Doland until the January ketball Committee will recom- in each region and to provide pirations of January 1988 and one should be sent directly to Fannie B. 1988 Convention, representing Di- mend to the Executive greater flexibility in the designa- who is retiring). Vaughan, executive assistant, at the vision I-AA West, and the individual Committee that the field for the tion of tournament sites. The Five of the 13 Council members NCAA national office. (PO. Box to replace Eugene F. Conigan until Division 1 Women’s Basketball Sun Belt Conference will be rea- whose terms expire are eligible for 1906, Mission, Kansas 66201). the January 1988 Convention, re- Championship be increasedfrom ligned from the East to the Mid- reelection (three in Division I and A brief paragraph describing the presenting Division I-A north inde- 40 to 48 teams for 1988 and that east region, the Big Ten Confer- two in Division II). Five Division I qualifications of the candidates pendents. the four geographical regions be ence from the Mideast to the members are not eligible for reelec- should accompany the nomination Division I members not eligible realigned, effective with the 1988- Midwest region and the South- tion; one Division II member cannot form that appears in this issue on for reelection are Don J. DiJulia, 89 season. west Athletic Conference from be reelected. Also, in Division III, page 18. The Nominating Commit- Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference; The committee met July 5-9 in the Midwest to the West region. two members must be replaced. tee has emphasized that all nomina- Mikki Flowers, Old Dominion Uni- Hot Springs, Virginia. All members of the Southern The deadline for submitting nom- tions should be submitted in written versity; David L. Maggard, Univer- The purpose of the realign- Conference will be placed in the inations is September 10. Nomina- form. sity of California, Berkeley, and ment is to create a better distri- See Women 5, page 14 tions may be sent to John E. In Division I, those eligible for Vernon M. Smith, University of Thomas, Chancellor, Appalachian reelection are B. J. Skelton, Clemson See OJicer. page 13 Cardinal rules the roost again For the second straight year, Stan- ford University is the unofficial NCAA champion of champions. In winning four team titles (Divi- sion I men’s swimming, baseball and women’s tennis, and the Na- tional Collegiate Water Polo Cham- pionship), the Cardinal also becomes only the fourth intercolle- giate athletics program to win 30 or more NCAA team titles. Stanford joins Southern Cal, UCLA and Oklahoma State in that elite group. Several other intercollegiate pro- grams made headlines during the 1986-87 championships season- some for continuing streaks, others for ending streaks, and still others for taking both men’s and women’s crowns in the same sport. Most notable among the contin- uing streaks is Hobart’s string of eight consecutive Division III men’s lacrosse victories. With its 9-5 vic- tory over Ohio Wesleyan for the 1987title, the Statesmen and coach Dave Urick moved past UCLA’s men’s basketball program and leg- endary coach John Wooden, who won consecutive Division I crowns - from 1967 through 1973. Hobart remains the only champion in the history of the Association’s Division III lacrosse _play-offs. _ See Cardinal. page IS Penn S&de lscnzsse team membrs cetebde wtnning a natbat &tonshij3 Fund for insurance payments sought Special Convention sets The Division I Men’s Basketball men’s basketball championship. pliance/ enforcement programs, en- Committee will recommend to the These include a scholarship-endow- hancement of officiating and drug Executive Committee that the ment fund for Division I student- education; grants to automaticqual- record for registration- NCAA use a portion of its net athletes who have exhausted their ifying conferences in the Division I A total of 1,135 delegates, conferences, all 114 Division I-A receipts from the men’s basketball eligibility but wish to return to Women’s Basketball Championship visitors and media representa- members were in attendance, as championship to pay the premium school to complete their degrees; for similar purposes; a nonpartici- tives attended the Association’s well as 94 of 97 Division I-AA for catastrophic insurance coverage grants to men’s automatioqualifying pation fee for each Division I insti- sixth special Convention June members and 106 of 133 Division for Division I student-athletes par- conferences to be used for com- tution that does not participate in 29-30 in Dallas, a record regis- I-AAA members. That meant a ticipating in all NCAA champion- the men’s basketball championship, tration for a special NCAA Con- total of 3 14 of the 344 Division I ships. and grants to the Youth Education vention. members, or 91.3 percent, regis- The committee, which met July In the News through Sports clinics and the na- That number surpassed the tered for the Convention. 5-9 in Hot Springs, Virginia, ex- tional certification and officiating 972 registeredfor the third special In Division II, 124 of 208 panded a recommendation made in New division program for men’s basketball. Convention in January 1976. members (59.6 percent) attended. May that the NCAA use gross re- The possibility of creating a If the NCAA pays all premiums Included in the total were 93 1 The Division III figure was only ceipts from the men’s basketball Division I-AAA for football is for Division I, the premiums paid delegates from 463 member in- 76 of 344, for 22.1 percent. championship to pay premiums for being studied by a number of by Divisions II and III would be stitutions, 73 representing 5 1 Of the Association’s 896 active student-athletes participating in Di- schools. Page 2. reduced. member conferences, 17 from and conference members, 514 vision I Men’s and Women’s Bas- In other actions, the committee affiliated members, one corres- were in Dallas (60.4 percent). Of Roll-call voting ponding member, six visitors and the 866 eligible voters, 510 (58.9 ketball Championships. Tabulations of roll-call votes voted to recommend that separate 107 news media representatives. percent) were represented. The committee also reaffirmed on certain proposals at the special officiating crews be preassigned to Including both institutions and See Special, page 13 its other recommendations regard- Convention. Page 6-12. all regional semifinals and finals. ing distribution of receipts from the See Fund, page 4 2 TtlE NCAA NEWShJuly pl lW7 Comment I-AAA football division would help schools, sport i’?zefollowing is un address pres- servations: representative of our findings: football can bring to the campus, ented by James Jarrett. athletics 1. A Division I institution playing “You would be out of your mind we continued to review our options. director at Old Dominion University, football at the Division II or III to start football at I-AA.” After discussions with Thomas J. concerning the establishment of an level cannot include football as one “If we do not tind an answer in Frericks, director of athletics at the NCAA DiGion I-AAAforfoolball. of its countable sports. the next two years, we will be forced University of Dayton (Division III Representatives of more than 50 2. Division I institutions are -a to pull the plug on football.” football), and 0. Dean Ehlers, ath- ir&turions heard Jarretlk talk dur- fish out of water” in Division 111 “Since the television money dis- letics director at James Madison ing rhe NCAA special Convention football. appeared, Division I-AA is not eco- University (Division I-AA football), and a large mujority agreed lo sup- 3. Many Division III institutions nomically feasible.” the idea of I-AAA emerged as an porr the continued development of are reluctant to schedulea university “The national championship for- alternative to address problems the concept. that has the remainder of its pro- mat is not the positive force we many Division I universities are gram in Division I. anticipated.‘, having playing football at levels You may wonder why the director 4.The lack of fan identification Indeed, discussionsconfirmed our other than I-A. of athletics at Old Dominion Uni- with a team in Division III inhibits own analysis that I-AA football A survey of I12 universities in versity, a I-AAA nonfootball play- marketing efforts and creates press- would lose several hundred thou- this category led to today’s meeting. ing institution, is talking about sure “to move up in division.‘, sand dollars a year at Old Domin- We are here becauseof our inter- restructuring NCAA Division I to 5. Except for those grandfathered ion. est in cost containment and organi- create a third football division. in, there is no championship oppor- Realizing the many benefits that See I-AAA, puge 3 Old Dominion has been interested tunity for Division 1 institutions in beginning football for several playing in Division III football. years. The university governing Division II concerns included Letters to the Ed!it.or board authorized a study of football James JanW scheduling, budget and marketing.