Skip to main content

NCAA picks Schaus, White for next year’s selection committee

By WTOP Staff

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Athletic directors Jim Schaus and Kevin White will become the newest members of NCAA men’s basketball selection committee next season.

The announcement came Thursday. Each will begin serving in September.

Schaus has been at Ohio since April 2008. He spent the previous nine years as athletic director at Wichita State and has worked at Oregon, Cincinnati, UTEP and Northern Illinois. He also served on the men’s basketball rules committee and the Division I committee on academic performance.

White has been Duke’s AD for six years. Previously, he led Notre Dame’s athletic department from 2000-08 and worked at Arizona State, Tulane, Maine and Loras. White also has served on several NCAA committees.

Oklahoma AD Joseph Castiglione will chair the 10-member selection committee in 2015-16.

Basketball around the Beltway: Tall task ahead for a Hoyas giant

By Dave Preston
WASHINGTON -- Past met present for Georgetown University when the school introduced Hoyas great Patrick Ewing as its head men's basketball coach, with an eye toward the future.  It happened on Wednesday in front of a room packed with media, boosters, fans, students, alumni and a pep band that did not know "Vehicle" by the Ides of March. But Ewing's name alone was music enough to everyone's ears at the John Thompson Jr. Athletic Center in D.C. Ewing even replicated his famous scene from when he committed to play at the Big East school in 1981, holding a Georgetown pennant above his head.
Read Next Story

Related Stories

Basketball around the Beltway: Tall task ahead for a Hoyas giant

Why Destiny is done: Slocum, 2 others transfer from Maryland

Georgetown hires Patrick Ewing as men’s basketball head coach, multiple sources report