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

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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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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Does the Multistage 20-m Shuttle Run Test Accurately Predict VO2max in NCAA Division I Women Collegiate Field Hockey Athletes?

Sports ◽

10.3390/sports9060075 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Meghan K. Magee ◽

Jason B. White ◽

Justin J. Merrigan ◽

Margaret T. Jones

Keyword(s):

Ncaa Division I ◽

Cardiovascular Fitness ◽

Division I ◽

Field Hockey ◽

Fitness Level ◽

Training History ◽

Volitional Fatigue ◽

Run Test ◽

And Training ◽

Shuttle Run

Laboratory assessments of maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) are considered the “gold standard” for ascertaining cardiovascular fitness, but they are not always practical for use in team sport settings. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to compare the criterion assessment of VO2max on a treadmill to the progressive, multistage 20-m shuttle run test (i.e., Beep test), and to determine the predictability of 6 previously established Beep test predictive equations (i.e., Chatterjee, Flouris, Leger, Leger and Gadoury, Ramsbottom, St. Clair-Gibson). Collegiate women field hockey athletes (n = 65, mean±SD: age 19.6 ± 1.2 years; weight 64.7 ± 6.1 kg) completed criterion VO2max (mean ± SD: 46.4 ± 4.6 mL·kg−1·min−1) and Beep tests to volitional fatigue. According to Bland–Altman and Ordinary Least Products Regressions, the Ramsbottom (46.5 ± 4.2 mL·kg−1·min−1) and Flouris (46.3 ± 3.8 mL·kg−1·min−1) equations were considered valid predictions of criterion measured VO2max (46.4 ± 4.6). The Chatterjee, Leger, Leger and Gadoury, and St. Clair-Gibson equations overestimated VO2max, and are not recommended for use with women collegiate field hockey athletes. The Ramsbottom and Flouris estimates of VO2max from 20-m shuttle performances may be used in this population. For accurate estimates of VO2max, the clientele’s age, fitness level, and training history should be considered when selecting equations.

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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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Intercollegiate Athletic Success and Donations at NCAA Division I Institutions

Journal of Sport Management ◽

10.1123/jsm.21.2.265 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 265-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Brad R. Humphreys ◽

Michael Mondello

Keyword(s):

Postsecondary Education ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Division I ◽

Reduced Form ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Data Set ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Education Data ◽

Athletic Success ◽

Form Model

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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Investigating the game-related statistics and tactical profile in NCAA division I men’s basketball games

Biology of Sport ◽

10.5114/biolsport.2018.71602 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Daniele Conte ◽

Antonio Tessitore ◽

Aaron Gjullin ◽

Dominik Mackinnon ◽

Corrado Lupo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Ncaa Division I ◽

Division I ◽

Men's Basketball

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Importance of Free-Throws at Various Stages of Basketball Games

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1994.78.1.243 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 243-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Bill Kozar ◽

Ross E. Vaughn ◽

Keith E. Whitfield ◽

Russell H. Lord ◽

Bobby Dye

Keyword(s):

Ncaa Division I ◽

Division I ◽

Men's Basketball ◽

Free Throw ◽

Basketball Coaches

Basketball coaches often refer to their teams' success or failure as a product of their players' performances at the free-throw line. In the present study, play-by-play records of 490 NCAA Division I men's basketball games were analyzed to assess the percentage of points scored from free-throws at various stages of the games. About 20% of all points were scored from free-throws. Free-throws comprised a significantly higher percentage of total points scored during the last 5 minutes than the first 35 minutes of the game for both winning and losing teams. Also, in the last 5 minutes of 246 games decided by 9 points or less and 244 decided by 10 points or more, winners scored a significantly higher percentage of points from free-throws than did losers. Suggestions for structuring practice conditions are discussed.

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To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Exploring Division I Athletic Departments’ Social-Media Policies

International Journal of Sport Communication ◽

10.1123/ijsc.4.4.492 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 492-513 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

Jimmy Sanderson

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Relations ◽

Ncaa Division I ◽

Student Athletes ◽

Division I ◽

Athletic Programs ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Athletic Departments ◽

External Monitoring ◽

And Training

Via their social-media postings, student-athletes are increasingly creating public relations issues for college athletic programs. With social media’s emergence as a popular communication tool, exploring the messages student-athletes receive from their athletic departments about social-media use is warranted. This research examined social-media policies in student-athlete handbooks from 159 NCAA Division I schools. Using thematic and textual analytic procedures, analysis revealed that policies heavily emphasize content restrictions and external monitoring and frame social media as laden with risk. The results suggest that social-media policies should be more reflexive to identify both positive and negative outcomes for student-athletes. In addition, athletic departments must assertively monitor social-media trends to ensure that policies and training stay relevant.

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