Few other details were leaked, although Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott did say the site of the national championship game will be bid out similar to the Super Bowl.
Poor academic results will keep a record 10 men's basketball teams out of next year's NCAA tournament, including the first BCS school to face the penalty - Connecticut.
The three-time national champion Huskies knew last year they would be banned and later filed an appeal for an NCAA waiver, but lost.
Joining UConn on the sideline in March will be Arkansas-Pine Bluff, California-Riverside, Cal State Bakersfield, Jacksonville State, Mississippi Valley State, North Carolina-Wilmington, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Toledo, and Towson.
OLYMPICS: U.S. women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the Olympic team should not be distracted by an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a security official who claims she spurned his advances.
"It better not be, and I don't think it will be," said Auriemma, who called his team focused and intent on winning a gold medal.
Auiemma, who has won seven NCAA titles at Connecticut, said he would let lawyers worry about the lawsuit filed June 11 by NBA security official Kelly Hardwick, who alleges the coach tried to kiss her on a trip to Russia in 2009. The lawsuit, filed in New York state court, names Auriemma, the NBA and USA Basketball as defendants.
Nik D'Avanzo, a senior at Baltimore's Archbishop Curley, gave an oral commitment Tuesday to play football at Temple. The 6-foot-3, 265-pound defensive end-fullback is the Owls' fifth recruit for the Class of 2013.
"I went there about three weeks ago for a football camp and I did really well. . . . I went up there [Tuesday] to see the campus a little bit more. I just loved it," D'Avanzo told the Baltimore Sun.
TENNIS:Andy Roddick reached the quarterfinals of the Eastbourne tennis championships, needing eight match points to overpower Jeremy Chardy of France, 6-2, 7-6 (6).
Marion Bartoli of France reached the quarterfinals after defeating Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada, 6-2, 6-2.
- Staff and wire reports
