NCAA Basketball

What Is The NCAA?

The NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NCAA is a group of approximately 1,200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that plan events and keep track of statistics for the basketball teams many colleges and universities in the United States. The NCAA is synonymous with basketball, and the NCAA records and statistics are accepted by all athletes as the last word in basketball recordkeeping. The NCAA also plans out several college basketball championships and tourneys every year like the NCAA Chicago Regional tourney. Tickets for the NCAA Chicago regional tournament sold fast because college basketball in the Midwest is extremely popular. The biggest championship tourney organized by the NCAA is the Final Four Championship that takes place every year. The 2007 NCAA Final Four basketball tournament was one of the most popular in history. Tickets to the NCAA Final Four Tournament sold out weeks in advance and ticket brokers were selling tickets for thousands of dollars online. CBS teamed up with the NCAA to televise the basketball games of the Final Four Championship and millions of people who couldn’t afford tickets cheered for their teams at home and at sports bars. People who like to gamble on sports use tools on the NCAA official website like the NCAA basketball odds and the NCAA basketball point spread to judge how they want to bet on NCAA championship games. To get information on the NCAA championships and the NCAA basketball bracket the best place to look is the NCAA website.


More Than Just Basketball

The NCAA oversees other college sports besides basketball. Football and other college sports have championships and other competitions organized by the NCAA. As a legislative body, the NCAA is broken down into committees and chapters. The NCAA works hard to enforce rules and regulations against doping and drug use and strives to keep all the championships and competitions that are organized by the NCAA fair for all competitors. Even the NCAA tries to be fair, many athletes and sports fans have lodged complaints against the NCAA because they fell that the NCAA isn’t fair to the players because of its tough regulations on things like compensation. Certain NCAA rules prohibit student athletes from accepting any kind of compensation at all for playing a sport except for a scholarship to the school they are playing for. It is felt this is unfair to the athlete, because colleges and universities can make millions of dollars per year from the athletic programs that the students play for.