Bubba Cunningham has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball committed. The North Carolina director of athletics will start his five-year term this September.
In a somewhat surprising revelation, Cunningham is first appointee from North Carolina to the committee. Cunningham has been with UNC since the fall of 2011.
Bubba Cunningham will begin a five-year term on the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee in September, NCAA announces. He’ll become the first UNC athletic director to serve on the committee.
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Kevin White, the vice president and director of athletics at Duke, was the committee’s chair for the 2019-20 season. However, due to COVID-19, the NCAA had to cancel both the men’s and women’s tournaments this season.