INDIANAPOLIS — West Coast Convention Commissioner Stu Jackson has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Committee, changing former Santa Clara Athletics Director Renee Baumgartner, who introduced she was leaving the varsity June 30 for private causes. Jackson will fill the ultimate 4 years of Baumgartner’s unique five-year time period on the committee.
Jackson has been in his present position for one 12 months. Earlier than that, he was government affiliate commissioner for males’s basketball for the Large East Convention, managing all features of the game together with scheduling optimization, compliance, student-athlete programming, information evaluation and the convention’s postseason match for almost 9 years.
Jackson additionally spent 13 years working for the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, serving first as senior vp and later as government vp of basketball operations. In that capability, he oversaw recreation operations, scheduling, enjoying guidelines, officiating and general administration. Jackson additionally applied the NBA’s officiating play calling evaluation program, utilizing superior know-how to help officiating throughout the league, and managed the NBA’s worldwide basketball operations, the place he oversaw the exponential progress of the NBA across the globe.
Jackson’s in depth basketball background additionally contains serving as president and basic supervisor of the enlargement Vancouver Grizzlies from 1994-2000, as assistant coach and later head coach of the New York Knicks from 1987-91, and as director of basketball operations in his first stint with the NBA from 1991-92. He additionally served as chair of the NBA Competitors Committee and on the boards of USA Basketball, the Basketball Corridor of Fame and the FIBA Technical Fee along with being a studio and recreation analyst for NBA TV and FS1 for 5 seasons.
On the collegiate facet, Jackson served as head coach at Wisconsin from 1992-94, main the Badgers to their first NCAA match berth in 47 years. He additionally held teaching positions at Windfall, Washington State and Oregon, and he served on the NCAA Guidelines and Competitors Committee.
A local of Studying, Pennsylvania, Jackson started his collegiate profession at Oregon earlier than ending at Seattle College, graduating in 1978. He was enshrined into the Pac-12 Convention Corridor of Honor in 2017 and into the Pennsylvania Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2022.
“I’m honored to be invited to affix the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Committee and symbolize the West Coast Convention,” Jackson stated. “I admire Renee Baumgartner’s service and am humbled to be appointed to finish her time period with this esteemed group. I’m anxiously trying ahead to the chance to work with the prevailing committee members and NCAA employees beneath Dan Gavitt’s stellar management on basketball’s premier occasion and contribute to the boys’s basketball championship and different future initiatives.”
