AGENDA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Sport Committee Meeting
Theodore Roosevelt Room
NCAA National Office
Indianapolis, Indiana
October 25-26, 2016
1. Executive session. (Terry Gawlik)
2. Welcome, introduction of new committee members and review of goals/objectives and
meeting schedule. [Supplement No. 1] (Gawlik and Anucha Browne)
3. Update from Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee meeting. [Supplement No. 2 – To
Be Distributed] (Gawlik and Browne)
4. Review of Mock Selection. (Gawlik)
5. Review of committee collaboration zone. (Rachel Kay)
6. Manuals – Committee and Pre-Championship.
(Meredith Cleaver)
[refer to committee collaboration zone]
7. Committee assignments. (Rick Nixon)
a. Conference and regional alignment. [Refer to Pre-Championship Manual, Appendix B]
b. Regional advisory committee assignments, roster, rankings and notes. [Supplement Nos.
3a, 3b, 3c, 3d and 3e]
c. Conference monitoring program overview and assignments.
Operations Manual, Section 6.5]
[Refer to Committee
d. Subcommittee assignments. [Refer to Committee Operations Manual, Section 6.6]
8. Regular-season preparation. (Nixon)
a. DirecTV package. (Kay)
b. Composite regular-season television schedule/online access.
c. Games watched tracking program.
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d. In-person game attendance.
9. Daily online Rating Percentage Index (RPI)/game results/conference standings/other
information. (Nixon and Kay)
a. System access.
b. Nitty gritty sheets. [Supplement No. 4a]
c. Team sheets. [Supplement No. 4b]
10. ESPN research presentation via webinar. – Tuesday, October 25 (1:30-2 p.m.).
11. Matters related to media/television/marketing.
a. Media and marketing progress/plans. (Tracie Hitz and Nixon)
b. Review of 2017 game dates and times. (Natalie Steger)
c. 2017 Division I Women’s Basketball Championship programming schedule. (Steger)
d. Review of 2017 Division I Women’s Basketball Championship/ESPN talent assignments
(philosophy and timeline). (Steger)
e. ESPN access requests. (Steger)
f. Top 16 reveals timeline. (Steger)
12. Update on regional site selection. (Cleaver)
13. Discuss first- and second-rounds. (Gawlik)
a. Announcement of game times.
Background: The committee will continue its discussion as to whether second round game
times will continue to be announced after the first round.
b. Game video for teams. (Tina Krah and Nixon)
14. Committee chair/vice chair. (Gawlik) [Anticipated Action]
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Background: The Women's Basketball Sport Committee will select a vice chair for the
2016-17 term who will become committee chair for the 2017-18 term.
15. Matters related to officiating. (Krah)
a. Update from the Women’s College Basketball Officiating, LLC Board of Managers
Meeting.
b. Update from Division I Conference Coordinators of Officials Meeting.
c. Regional officiating clinic update.
16. Future meetings and telephone conferences. (Cleaver)
17. Other business. (Gawlik and Browne)
18. Adjournment. (Gawlik)
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