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5 years ago
2002 (June 25-27) — The Division I Men’s Golf Committee recommends to the Championships/Competition Cabinet that the championship format change from a Wednesday-through-Saturday rotation to a Tuesday-through-Friday schedule, with Saturday as an optional rain day.
15 years ago
1992 (July 1) — The Division I Women’s Basketball Committee recommends to the Executive Committee that the Division I women’s basketball tournament be expanded from 48 to 64 teams.
1992 (June-July) — Women at Colorado State University and the University of Texas at Austin file separate Title IX suits. At Colorado State, complainants seek reinstatement of the softball team after it was discontinued, while seven women at Texas file suit in federal court to force the school to offer varsity softball, soccer, rowing and gymnastics.
1992 (July 9) — The NCAA Gender-Equity Task Force, formed in response to the first NCAA gender-equity study showing disparity in the treatment of male and female student-athletes, meets for the first time.
30 years ago
1977 (July 15) — The NCAA agrees to its first four-year television contract for football when it awards rights to ABC. Seaver Peters, chair of the Television Committee, said the Negotiating Subcommittee was prepared to divide the contract between two networks but ABC satisfied the Association’s goal of expanded coverage with the largest one-network sports agreement in television history.
20 years ago
1987 (June 29-30) — The sixth special Convention in the NCAA history convenes in Dallas, where more than 1,200 delegates and media representatives discuss fiscal issues in athletics. Also launched at the Convention is an 18-month national forum on the appropriate role of college athletics within higher educational.
2002 (June 25-27) — The Division I Men’s Golf Committee recommends to the Championships/Competition Cabinet that the championship format change from a Wednesday-through-Saturday rotation to a Tuesday-through-Friday schedule, with Saturday as an optional rain day.
15 years ago
1992 (July 1) — The Division I Women’s Basketball Committee recommends to the Executive Committee that the Division I women’s basketball tournament be expanded from 48 to 64 teams.
1992 (June-July) — Women at Colorado State University and the University of Texas at Austin file separate Title IX suits. At Colorado State, complainants seek reinstatement of the softball team after it was discontinued, while seven women at Texas file suit in federal court to force the school to offer varsity softball, soccer, rowing and gymnastics.
1992 (July 9) — The NCAA Gender-Equity Task Force, formed in response to the first NCAA gender-equity study showing disparity in the treatment of male and female student-athletes, meets for the first time.
30 years ago
1977 (July 15) — The NCAA agrees to its first four-year television contract for football when it awards rights to ABC. Seaver Peters, chair of the Television Committee, said the Negotiating Subcommittee was prepared to divide the contract between two networks but ABC satisfied the Association’s goal of expanded coverage with the largest one-network sports agreement in television history.
20 years ago
1987 (June 29-30) — The sixth special Convention in the NCAA history convenes in Dallas, where more than 1,200 delegates and media representatives discuss fiscal issues in athletics. Also launched at the Convention is an 18-month national forum on the appropriate role of college athletics within higher educational.
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