The Commission on College Basketball’s long-awaited recommendations mirrored the Pac-12’s proposals from a similar report last month to rid men’s college basketball of the scandal that rocked the sport last season.
The independent 12-person commission, led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and including NBA greats David Robinson and Grant Hill and former Georgetown coach John Thompson, released a 60-page report Wednesday, seven months after the group was established by the NCAA in response to a federal investigation into bribery and corruption in college basketball.
“We are particularly pleased that many of the Rice Commission’s recommendations parallel those of the Pac-12 Task Force, which were unanimously embraced by our Conference’s 12 presidents and chancellors in March,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement released by the conference.