A little more than two weeks after federal investigators arrested 10 men, including four coaches, amid an FBI investigation into fraud and corruption in college basketball, the NCAA finalized the formation of a commission to address the problems of an ailing sport. The Commission on College Basketball, as it came to be known, became official with an NCAA press release on Oct. 11 and, in it, Mark Emmert, the NCAA president, spoke with urgency of a need for significant change.
“We must take decisive action,” he said at the time. “This is not a time for half-measures or incremental change.