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UNC Basketball: Bubba Cunningham joins NCAA Basketball Committee

By Zack Pearson

CHAPEL HILL, NC - NOVEMBER 18: North Carolina Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham looks on prior to a game between the Western Carolina Catamounts and the North Carolina Tar Heels at Kenan Stadium on November 18, 2017 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. UNC won 65-10. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)
CHAPEL HILL, NC - NOVEMBER 18: North Carolina Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham looks on prior to a game between the Western Carolina Catamounts and the North Carolina Tar Heels at Kenan Stadium on November 18, 2017 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. UNC won 65-10. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images) /
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UNC Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham will join the NCAA Basketball Committee this September, a move that was announced on Wednesday

The NCAA Basketball Committee has a new member and he’s from the Tar Heel state.

While there wasn’t an NCAA Tournament this year and all Spring sports have been cancelled, there was some big news on Thursday regarding the committee. The NCAA announced on Thursday that they have named University of North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham to the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee.

Cunningham will take his role in September and begin a five-year term. He’s the first athletic director in UNC history to take a role on the committee.

Cunningham released this statement upon the news being revealed on Thursday via NCAA.com:

"“Representing the University of North Carolina and the ACC on the NCAA men’s basketball committee is truly an honor and something I look very much forward to when things settle down and we can get back to managing games again,” Cunningham said."

Cunningham got his start back in 1988 serving as Associate Athletics Director for finance and facilities and Associate Director of Athletics for external affairs at Notre Dame. In 2002, he joined Ball State as Director of Athletics until 2005 when he left to take the same job at Tulsa.

After six years at Tulsa, Cunningham took the job of Director of Athletics at North Carolina in 2011, a position he has held ever since. In his time at the school, UNC has won 13 national championships including the 2017 Men’s Division I Basketball title.

Cunningham will replace Duke’s Kevin White on the 10-member committee that selects the 68 team field for the NCAA Tournament each year. He will join Mitch Barnhart (Kentucky), Tom Burnett (Southland Conference), Charles McClelland (Southwestern Athletic Conference), Bernadette McGlade (Atlantic 10 Conference), Mike O’Brien (Toledo), Jim Phillips (Northwestern), Jamie Pollard (Iowa State), Chris Reynolds (Bradley) and Craig Thompson (Mountain West Conference) on the committee.

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