INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA President Mark Emmert detailed the steps Thursday that the association plans in response to charges of bribery, fraud and corruption in men's basketball.
In his first speech to the NCAA membership since the September arrests of assistant coaches at four schools and the firing amid scandal of Rick Pitino at Louisville, Emmert said the responsibility falls on the leaders in college athletics to restore faith in their mission.
"Scandals that call into question our commitment to academic integrity make whatever praise we have of our highest graduation rates ring pretty hollow," Emmert said in his address on the state of college sports at the NCAA convention.