Intercollegiate Athletic Success and Donations at NCAA Division I Institutions

The authors tested the hypothesis that donations to universities vary with athletic success using a comprehensive panel data set drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) over the period of 1976–1996. Estimation of a linear reduced-form model of the determination of donations to colleges and universities indicates that postseason football bowl-game and NCAA Division I men’s basketball-tournament appearances were associated with significant increases in restricted giving and no increases in unrestricted giving to public institutions the following year, whereas only postseason basketball appearances were associated with increases in restricted giving to private institutions.

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Team Performance and National Polls: The 1990–91 Ncaa Division I Basketball Season

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1992.74.3.707 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 707-710 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard F. Ittenbach ◽

Eric T. Kloos ◽

J. Douglas Etheridge

Keyword(s):

Team Performance ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Division I ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Team Success

Correlations among team indices and postseason rankings for the 64 teams who participated in the 1991 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament were computed. Two variables, points-per-game and points allowed, emerged as statistically significant correlates with other traditional measures of team success in intercollegiate basketball.

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Performance profile of NCAA Division I men’s basketball games and training sessions

Biology of Sport ◽

10.5604/20831862.1200512 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 189-194 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Daniele Conte ◽

Antonio Tessitore ◽

Katie Smiley ◽

Cole Thomas ◽

Terence Favero

Keyword(s):

Ncaa Division I ◽

Division I ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

And Training

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Estimated Profit: A Look at the Excess Revenues of Private Four-Year Nonprofit Postsecondary Institutions

Education Finance and Policy ◽

10.1162/edfp_a_00287 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 125-145

Author(s):

Robert Toutkoushian ◽

Manu Raghav

Keyword(s):

Postsecondary Education ◽

Postsecondary Institutions ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Size Selectivity ◽

Education Data ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

Level Data ◽

Different Types ◽

Tuition Discount ◽

Double Digit

In this study, we use institution-level data for the period 2004 to 2016 from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the excess revenues of private, four-year nonprofit institutions. We present data on the magnitude of excess revenues for these institutions over this period, examine how excess revenues are associated with different types of private institutions, and how within-institution excess revenues are affected by changes in time-varying factors, such as their size, selectivity, revenue structure, and expense distribution. We find that across most years in our sample, private, four-year nonprofits averaged double-digit excess returns. The results show that variations over time in excess revenues are related to a number of factors, including institution size, yield rates, net tuition revenue, and tuition discount rates.

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The Underrepresentation of African Americans in NCAA Division I-A Head Coaching Positions

Journal of Sport Management ◽

10.1123/jsm.20.3.387 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 387-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

George B. Cunningham ◽

Jennifer E. Bruening ◽

Thomas Straub

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African Americans ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Turnover Intentions ◽

American Football ◽

Division I ◽

Head Coach ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Football Coaches ◽

Basketball Coaches

The purpose of this study was to examine factors that contribute to the under representation of African Americans in head coaching positions. In Study 1, qualitative data were collected from assistant football (n= 41) and men’s basketball (n= 16) coaches to examine why coaches sought head coaching positions, barriers to obtaining such positions, and reasons for leaving the coaching profession. In Study 2, assistant football (n= 259) and men’s basketball coaches (n= 114) completed a questionnaire developed from Study 1. Results indicate that although there were no differences in desire to become a head coach, African Americans, relative to Whites, perceived race and opportunity as limiting their ability to obtain a head coaching position and had greater occupational turnover intentions. Context moderated the latter results, as the effects were stronger for African American football coaches than they were for African American basketball coaches. Results have practical implications for the advancement of African American football coaches into head coaching roles.

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A Method to March Madness? Institutional Logics and the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament

Journal of Sport Management ◽

10.1123/jsm.22.6.677 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 22 (6) ◽

pp. 677-700 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Richard M. Southall ◽

Mark S. Nagel ◽

John M. Amis ◽

Crystal Southall

Keyword(s):

Ncaa Division I ◽

National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽

The United States ◽

Division I ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Educational Mission ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Organizational Conditions ◽

World Series ◽

The Impact

As the United States’ largest intercollegiate athletic event, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men’s basketball tournament consistently generates high television ratings and attracts higher levels of advertising spending than the Super Bowl or the World Series. Given the limited analysis of the organizational conditions that frame these broadcasts’ production, this study examines the impact of influential actors on the representation process. Using a mixed-method approach, this paper investigates production conditions and processes involved in producing a sample (n= 31) of NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament broadcasts, examines the extent to which these broadcasts are consistent with the NCAA’s educational mission, and considers the dominant institutional logic that underpins their reproduction. In so doing, this analysis provides a critical examination of the 2006 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament broadcasts, and how such broadcasts constitute, and are constituted by, choices in television production structures and practices.

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Collegiate Basketball Players’ Experiences of being Coached During a Turnaround Season

The Sport Psychologist ◽

10.1123/tsp.26.1.43 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 43-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andrea J. Becker

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Staff Member ◽

The United States ◽

Higher Order ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

Division I ◽

Basketball Players ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Semistructured Interviews

The primary purpose of this study was to examine basketball players’ experiences of being coached during a turnaround season. Participants included eight collegiate men’s basketball players (ages 18–23) and one staff member representing an NCAA Division I program at a large university in the United States. All participants were involved with the basketball program during back-to-back seasons in which the team experienced a losing record (14–17) followed by a coaching change, and then a winning record (22–8) and conference championship. Semistructured interviews (lasting between 30–90 min) were conducted and transcribed verbatim. Analyses of the transcripts revealed 631 meaning units that were further grouped into lower and higher order themes. This led to the development of five major dimensions which encompassed these basketball players’ experiences of being coached during this extraordinary turnaround season including their (a) Experiences of Coach’s Personality Characteristics; (b) Experiences of Coach’s Philosophy, System, and Style of play; (c) Experiences of His Coaching Style; (d) Experiences of the Practice Environment; and (e) Experiences of How Coach Influenced Us.

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Examining the Gathering of Nations Powwow and a NCCA Division I basketball game

Journal of Human Sciences ◽

10.14687/jhs.v16i3.5742 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 875-884

Author(s):

Steven Aicinena ◽

Sebahattin Ziyanak

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Structural Characteristics ◽

Division I ◽

Prize Money ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Basketball Game

Powwows are ceremonial gatherings of North America’s indigenous peoples that deliver ritual focus, solidarity, collective identity, cohesion, and cultural persistence through song, dance, and social interaction. Powwows underwent significant transformations after indigenous peoples’ contact with European colonialists. The Gathering of Nations Powwow is a large intertribal contest powwow (LICP) that attracts over 3,500 dancers who compete for prize money in front of more than 15,000 spectators. This paper examines the construction of a large intertribal contest powwow and an NCAA Division I basketball game. The purpose of this study is to determine in what ways the structure of the Gathering of Nations Powwow and a New Mexico Lobo (NCAA Division I Institution) basketball game are similar and different in promotional and staging activities. This study focused on two questions “Are both LICPs and NCAA Division I basketball games rightfully considered spectacles?” And, “If LICPs are, indeed, spectacles, to what extent do they share the structural characteristics of sports spectacles such as NCAA Division I basketball games?” The participant observation method is utilized to make comparisons between the two events. All field ethnographic observations were conducted during the 2018 Gathering of Nations Powwow and a University of New Mexico men’s basketball game held during the 2018-19 season. We determined that the Gathering of Nations Powwow is a spectacle and that it is highly similar to an NCAA Division I basketball game in terms of its structure.

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¿Por qué jugar? Sport socialization among Hispanic/Latina female NCAA division I student-athletes

Journal of Amateur Sport ◽

10.17161/jas.v3i2.6460 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 27-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lindsey Darvin ◽

Alicia Cintron ◽

Meg Hancock

Keyword(s):

Intercollegiate Athletics ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Student Athletes ◽

Sport Participation ◽

National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽

Female Athletes ◽

Division I ◽

Elite Group ◽

Athletic Success ◽

Potential Factors

Representation of Hispanics/Latinas in intercollegiate athletics is lacking. During the 2014-2015 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletic season, only 2.2 percent of all female Division I student-athlete’s identified as Hispanic or Latina (NCAA, 2015). This low percentage of Hispanic/Latina female participants calls into question how these young women become involved in athletics and sustain their involvement within sport. While previous research has examined the socialization processes of youth athletes and parents of youth athlete participants, there is little research aimed at examining these processes for elite-level athlete participants (Dorsch, Smith, & McDonough, 2015; Greendorfer, Blinde, & Pellegrini, 1986;). Thus, the aim of this current study was to examine the potential factors that may have contributed to consistent sport participation for an elite group of Hispanic/Latina female athletes throughout their youth and collegiate careers. Participants for this study identified as current NCAA Division I Hispanic/Latina female student-athletes. Results showed that family, specifically parents and siblings, contributed to socializing Hispanic/Latina athletes into sport, while family and coaches contributed to the persistence of their athletic endeavors. Findings also show a sense of cultural indifference, youth coaches who invested in the participants long-term, and a significant involvement of the patriarch of the family in their athletic success.

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