Assessing the Stringency of Penalties for NCAA Violations Related To Banned Substances among the Top Division I and II Men's Basketball Programs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly McBryan
Keyword(s):  
Division I ◽  
Men's Basketball

A new approach to bracket prediction in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament based on a dual-proportion likelihood

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Andrew Gupta
Keyword(s):  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Probability Model ◽  
Expected Value ◽  
Division I ◽  
Prediction System ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
The One

AbstractThe widespread proliferation of and interest in bracket pools that accompany the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament have created a need to produce a set of predicted winners for each tournament game by people without expert knowledge of college basketball. Previous research has addressed bracket prediction to some degree, but not nearly on the level of the popular interest in the topic. This paper reviews relevant previous research, and then introduces a rating system for teams using game data from that season prior to the tournament. The ratings from this system are used within a novel, four-predictor probability model to produce sets of bracket predictions for each tournament from 2009 to 2014. This dual-proportion probability model is built around the constraint of two teams with a combined 100% probability of winning a given game. This paper also performs Monte Carlo simulation to investigate whether modifications are necessary from an expected value-based prediction system such as the one introduced in the paper, in order to have the maximum bracket score within a defined group. The findings are that selecting one high-probability “upset” team for one to three late rounds games is likely to outperform other strategies, including one with no modifications to the expected value, as long as the upset choice overlaps a large minority of competing brackets while leaving the bracket some distinguishing characteristics in late rounds.

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

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-710 ◽  
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.

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

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Conte ◽  
Antonio Tessitore ◽  
Katie Smiley ◽  
Cole Thomas ◽  
Terence Favero
Keyword(s):  
Ncaa Division I ◽  
Division I ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
And Training

Business in the Bluegrass and Beyond

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-94
Author(s):  
Jim Host ◽  
Eric A. Moyen
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
The State ◽  
Division I ◽  
Radio Network ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
Short Span ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Voice

While working with the Lexington Tourist and Convention Commission, Jim Host began to network with individuals from the National Tour Brokers Association (NTBA). Eventually, he convinced the NTBA leadership (including Joe Casser and Arthur Tauck) to hire his company and allow him to serve as the organization’s executive director. In a short span of time, Host dramatically increased the NTBA’s membership and revenue. He then won the exclusive radio rights for the University of Kentucky’s basketball and football broadcasts. Host traversed the state, signing affiliate stations for the UK Radio Network. Within a few years, he had created the largest college sports radio network in the country, which included power stations WHAS and WCKY. Cawood Ledford was the voice of the network. While traveling with UK’s basketball team, Host learned that the NCAA outsourced its radio broadcasts for the Division I men’s basketball tournament. Host made an offer to Tom Jernstedt and Dave Cawood of the NCAA to take over the radio broadcasts, and NCAA executive director Walter Byers gave his approval. Host then started building the NCAA Radio Network.

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

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-413 ◽  
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.

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

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 677-700 ◽  
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.

Snakes in Sneakers: A Case Study of Organizational Politics in a NCAA Division I Athletics Program

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Marshall Magnusen ◽  
Andrew Gallucci ◽  
Stephen Kelly ◽  
Josh Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Division I ◽  
Head Coach ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Basketball Team ◽  
Assistant Coach ◽  
Management Students

This case is a creative illustration of organizational politics in a National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) sports setting. It includes the exploration of several key concepts: political will, political skill, political perceptions, political behavior, and political influence theory. Upon arriving to his new job at the Division I level, an assistant men’s basketball coach finds himself to be a key piece in a political chess match between the highly successful Head Coach of the men’s basketball team and the Athletic Director (AD). The issue at hand is the hiring of the new assistant coach by the AD without the support of the head coach. The hire is an attempt by the AD to subvert and eventually replace the legendary head coach who, in the eyes of the AD, is long past his prime. Accordingly, the new hire encounters a variety of political scenarios, including strong resistance from the players and coaching staff of the men’s basketball team. This case, with the addition of detailed teaching notes, is designed to highlight salient elements of organizational politics to undergraduate and graduate sport management students, and explain how they can successfully apply this information and more effectively operate in the political sports arena.

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

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
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.

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

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.

scholarly journals External Load and Muscle Activation Monitoring of NCAA Division I Basketball Team Using Smart Compression Shorts

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5348
Author(s):  
David N. Saucier ◽  
Samaneh Davarzani ◽  
Reuben F. Burch V ◽  
Harish Chander ◽  
Lesley Strawderman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components ◽  
External Load ◽  
Muscle Activation ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Division I ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
Additional Information

There is scarce research into the use of Strive Sense3 smart compression shorts to measure external load with accelerometry and muscle load (i.e., muscle activations) with surface electromyography in basketball. Sixteen external load and muscle load variables were measured from 15 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I men’s basketball players with 1137 session records. The data were analyzed for player positions of Centers (n = 4), Forwards (n = 4), and Guards (n = 7). Nonparametric bootstrapping was used to find significant differences between training and game sessions. Significant differences were found in all variables except Number of Jumps and all muscle load variables for Guards, and all variables except Muscle Load for Forwards. For Centers, the Average Speed, Average Max Speed, and Total Hamstring, Glute, Left, and Right Muscle variables were significantly different (p < 0.05). Principal component analysis was conducted on the external load variables. Most of the variance was explained within two principal components (70.4% in the worst case). Variable loadings of principal components for each position were similar during training but differed during games, especially for the Forward position. Measuring muscle activation provides additional information in which the demands of each playing position can be differentiated during training and competition.

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