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NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee reprimands Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer
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For Immediate Release
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
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Contact(s)
Scottie Rodgers
Assistant Director for the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship
317/917-6539
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INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee has reprimanded C. Vivian Stringer, head women’s basketball coach at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick for inappropriate comments made during the first round of the 2004 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.
Specifically, Stringer made negative comments about officiating following Rutgers’ first-round game against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The Division I Women’s Basketball Championship handbook states: “Members of the coaching staff or other representatives of participating institutions or conferences shall not make public statements critical of officiating in any NCAA championship event. Failure to comply with this policy may subject the individual, institution or conference to the misconduct provisions of NCAA Bylaw 31.1.10.” Per the parameters of the bylaw, the committee issued a public reprimand to Stringer for her comments.
“The committee was very disappointed in this behavior and strongly believes that this act compromised the integrity of the championship,” said Lynn Parkes, chair of the Division I Women’s Basketball Committee and associate director of athletics at the University of Memphis. “This type of action only serves to discredit the individual, Rutgers and the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.” -30-
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