NCAA Committee Chair

STANFORD, Calif. – The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee has elected Stanford's Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics, Bernard Muir, to serve as the committee's vice chair for the 2017-18 season and chair for the 2018-19 season.
 
Since 2012, Muir has served as a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee, which oversees all administrative aspects of NCAA collegiate men's basketball at the Division I level and comprises the NCAA Tournament selection committee. Muir has been appointed the vice chair for the 2017-18 season under committee chair and Creighton Director of Athletics Bruce Rasmussen, before taking over as committee chair for the 2018-19 season. 
 
The 10-member NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee is responsible for selecting, seeding and bracketing the field for the NCAA Tournament. School and conference administrators are nominated by their conference, serve five-year terms and represent a cross-section of the Division I membership.

Muir is also a member of USA Basketball's 12-member Board of Directors for the 2017-20 quadrennium.
 
Muir has served as Stanford's Director of Athletics since 2012, leading the Cardinal to unprecedented success. Through five seasons under Muir's leadership, Stanford has extended two of the most recognizable streaks in college athletics. In 2016-17, the Cardinal captured its 23rd consecutive Learfield Sports Directors' Cup, presented to the most successful intercollegiate athletic department in the nation. Stanford's NCAA championships in men's soccer, women's volleyball, women's swimming and diving, and women's water polo in 2016-17 extended its streak of seasons with at least one NCAA championship to 41, the longest such streak in the nation.
 
Stanford has won 10 NCAA championships in Muir's tenure, increasing its total to 113 overall and tying UCLA for the all-time lead in NCAA team titles. Stanford captured its record-fourth Capital One Cup on the women's side in 2016-17, and completed its most successful Olympics competition with a record 27 medals earned by current and former Stanford student-athletes during the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
 
In 2016, Muir was an Athletic Director of the Year finalist for the Sports Business Journal Awards.
 
Muir began his involvement with the NCAA as an assistant director of the Division I Men's Basketball National Championship from 1992-98. He was elevated to director of operations for the Division I Men's Basketball National Championship in 1998, a position he served in for three years. He moved into administrative roles at Delaware, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Butler and Auburn, serving as the Director of Athletics at Georgetown (2005-09) and Delaware (2009-12) prior to his appointment at Stanford.