CONVENTION

95th annual Convention set for January 6-8 in Orlando

About 1,700 delegates are expected for the Association's 95th annual Convention January 6-8 in Orlando, Florida.

Divisions II and III will act on 80 legislative proposals during their January 8 business sessions, 46 for Division II and 34 for Division III. Division II's primary legislative focuses will involve amateurism and Bylaw 15 deregulation. Division III will address important financial aid issues, among other things. Division I will have no legislative activity but will conduct forums January 8 on amateurism and basketball issues.

The annual Honors Dinner will be conducted January 7. At that dinner, the Association will honor Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, a former basketball player at Bowdoin College, with the Theodore Roosevelt Award -- the NCAA's highest honor. Today's Top VIII, Silver Anniversary and Award of Valor recipients also will be recognized at the Honors Dinner.

In addition, three Sportspersons of the Year will be honored at the January 6 delegates reception.

KNIGHT COMMISSION

Commission nears end of information-gathering phase

The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics is nearing the end of its first phase of information-gathering and is setting its sights on deliberation for 2001.

Several presenters have told the Commission that while the state of college athletics has improved since the NCAA began to emphasize presidential control more than a decade ago, issues remain that have grown from the rapid increase in the popularity of college sports and the ensuing pressures on athletics departments to not only be self-sufficient, but to generate revenues for their institutions.

Staff contact: Kevin C. Lennon -- klennon@ncaa.org.

CHAMPIONSHIPS

Updated championships awards to debut in 2001-02

Beginning in the 2001-02 academic year, NCAA champions will receive modernized versions of championship trophies.

The new trophies have a more contemporary look, but they have been redesigned in a way that links them to the current version.

Staff contact: Dennis L. Poppe -- dpoppe@ncaa.org.

BASKETBALL RULES

Interpretation provided about clock resets after technical fouls

The NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees have released a rules interpretation regarding clock resets after technical fouls called against the team possessing the ball.

The interpretation, effective January 1, states that there shall be no reset of the shot clock at the point of interruption when: (1) any technical foul is assessed to the team in control of the ball; (2) any technical foul is assessed to the team in possession of the ball during a throw-in; or (3) any technical foul is charged to bench personnel and followers of the team in control of the ball, or in possession of the ball during a throw-in. The interpretation eliminates a team's ability to draw an intentional technical foul in order to maintain possession of the ball beyond 35 seconds.

Staff contact: Marty Benson -- mbenson@ncaa.org.

NCAA FELLOWS

Four women, three men selected for Fellows program

The NCAA's Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee and the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics have selected the 2001-02 NCAA Fellows.

Members of the 2001-02 NCAA Fellows class are: Corrinne Wright, assistant director of athletics compliance, Syracuse University; Ralph "Christopher" Reynolds, assistant athletics director, University of Notre Dame; Gloria Nevarez, assistant athletics director/compliance, University of California, Berkeley; James Wyatt, assistant commissioner for compliance, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference; John Robinson Jr., associate athletics director, Villanova University; Gwen Lexow, head softball coach, Bates College; and Faith Shearer, associate director of athletics/senior woman administrator, Johns Hopkins University.

Staff contact: Rochelle Collins -- rcollins@ncaa.org.