{"id":1897,"date":"2025-07-17T04:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1897\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T04:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:51:14","slug":"ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-committee-ushers-in-new-committee-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1897\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball committee ushers in new committee chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill has officially begun his tenure as Chair of the NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Committee for the 2025-26 season, following the committee\u2019s annual summer meeting in Savannah, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sunbeltsports.org\/news\/2025\/7\/11\/sun-belt-commissioner-keith-gill-begins-term-as-ncaa-mens-basketball-committee-chair.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sun Belt Conference announced on Friday.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sun Belt Conference announced on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gill\u2019s appointment marks the culmination of a five-year term on the committee that began in the 2021-22 season. He previously served as Vice Chair during the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Committee is tasked with one of college sports\u2019 most high-profile responsibilities: selecting, seeding and bracketing the field for March Madness. The 87th Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Championship will conclude with the Men\u2019s Final Four in Indianapolis on April 4 and 6, 2026, marking the ninth time the city has hosted the event.<\/p>\n<p>This season\u2019s Final Four weekend is set to feature an expanded slate of basketball action. The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) semifinals will be held Thursday, April 2, at Butler\u2019s Hinkle Fieldhouse. The NIT championship game, along with the NCAA Division II and III national championships, will take place Sunday, April 5, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Gill on the 2025-26 committee are newly-elected Vice Chair Martin Newton of Samford, Mark Coyle of Minnesota, Irma Garcia of Manhattan, Stu Jackson of the West Coast Conference, Arthur Johnson of Temple, Zack Lassiter of Abilene Christian, Lee Reed of Georgetown, Chad Weiberg of Oklahoma State, John Wildhack of Syracuse, and Tom Wistrcill of the Big Sky Conference.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-basketball\/duke\/news\/duke-legend-cooper-flagg-proved-mavericks-jason-kidd-hes-ready-uncomfortable-role\/42050f62f40a2b5602d1ad70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Duke legend Cooper Flagg proved to Mavericks&#039; Jason Kidd he&#039;s ready for &#039;uncomfortable&#039; role;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Duke legend Cooper Flagg proved to Mavericks&#8217; Jason Kidd he&#8217;s ready for &#8216;uncomfortable&#8217; role<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill has officially begun his tenure as Chair of the NCAA Division I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[2596,461,2593,49,48,551,547,550,2597,2592,2598,525,530,2591,532,531,82,2590,2595,2594],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaab","tag-arthur-johnson","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-championship","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-collegebasketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-keith-gill","tag-minnesota","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-committee","tag-ncaab","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-sun-belt-conference","tag-vice-chair","tag-west-coast-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}