NCAA

The "NCAA Football" franchise, a game for many consoles including the PS3, is played by enthusiasts across the world. It’s a game that features all of the players in the NCAA on each…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recruiting bylaws regulate all recruitment activities and draft procedures between college and university institutions and prospective…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association sets specific rules for how, when and under what conditions a collegiate athlete in track and other sports may transfer from one school to another. These…

If your "NCAA Football 11" player is approaching the end of his collegiate career and you're curious how he would fare in the NFL, you can export that player to Superstar Mode in…

For collegiate athletes, transfers are sometimes an unfortunate necessity. Due to issues around grades, discipline, position battles or lost scholarships, there comes a time when a player needs to cut…

Talented high school soccer players can reduce the cost of college by earning a soccer scholarship. More than 300 schools participate in NCAA men's soccer, with many of those schools offering partial…

Electronic Art's "NCAA Football 2011" is a realistic college football game experience for the PS3. Each player reflects his real-life abilities and the style of the individual school. In…

TeamBuilder is an option that the video game producer EA Sports included in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 versions of its "NCAA Football" games for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The mode allows you to…

Student athletes have various reasons for wanting to transfer to another school. A better playing opportunity or a desire to move closer to home are two prime examples. For an NAIA student…

NCAA Football '11 is the 2011 release from Electronics Arts in the long line of college football titles. The game is available for PlayStation 2 and 3, Xbox 360 and iPhone. The 2011 release takes the…

"NCAA Football 11" by EA Sports is a college football game for multiple consoles including the PlayStation 3. Due to NCAA regulations, the default rosters do not include player names, only numbers. To…

"NCAA Football 10" is a football simulation game for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC that has a variety of game modes, including Be a Legend. In Be a Legend, you have the opportunity to play through a…

"NCAA 11" is a college football game made by EA Sports. Available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, improved graphics and overall gameplay compared to its predecessors. A hidden…

Getting a sack or a tackle behind the line of scrimmage is extremely difficult in "NCAA Football 10." To help get your defensive player behind the line of scrimmage, use the "Jump Snap" button. When…

In football and soccer, statisticians use passer completion percentage to calculate the passing accuracy of a player. In soccer, it is how often a player will pass the ball where a player on his team…

While soccer remains disappointing as a spectator sport in the U.S., the sport is wildly popular with youth players and college programs. NCAA Division I and II colleges and universities offer full or…

To compete in an intercollegiate athletic event, specific eligibility criteria must be met. For a student who has completed some or all of his pre-collegiate education outside of the United States,…

When networks sign billion-dollar contracts with the NCAA, as CBS and Turner Broadcasting did in April 2010, for the rights to televise the NCAA basketball tournament, they often make demands aimed at…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association provides scholarships to outstanding student athletes in a variety of sports fields, including golf. These scholarships help students pay for college, and…

When someone mentions wrestling, most people probably think of the theatrical, steel-chair swinging professional wrestlers. However, amateur wrestling actually has a more traditional, more prestigious…

Soccer in the U.S. grows in popularity every year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) provides partial and full soccer scholarships for players in both Division I and Division II…

The passing efficiency rating in NCAA football is used to measure the performance of quarterbacks. It takes into consideration the number of passes thrown and completed, the number of yards gained and…

Violating National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and regulations proves costly and embarrassing for schools and athletes. Penalties range from warnings to forfeiting games from…

Unlike the big-revenue sports football and basketball, where athletes are usually on full-ride athletic scholarships, soccer scholarships are handled on what is called an equivalency basis. Since the…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, otherwise known as the NCAA, has a playoff type format for the 4 major sports that its colleges and universities engage in with the exception of football.…

In two major sports the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, employs a ranking system that plays a vital role in determining which school emerges as champion. Men's and women's…

A moneyline wager is a type of wager in which you bet a certain amount of money to win $100, or you bet $100 to win the plus spread on the underdog. In other words, betting $100 on an underdog with a…

The NCAA seeding system ranks the 16 teams in each of the 4 regions of the 64-team tournament bracket. Basing each seeding on several criteria that rank a team's regular-season performance, the field…

The most notable NCAA playoffs take place over the holidays and in March, when the football bowl games and the men's basketball tournaments are played. The procedure to qualify for the bowl games…

In the NCAA men's basketball tournament, a so-called pod system is used to regionalize four 16-team fields. Each region sends a representative team, its champion, to play in the penultimate and highly…

If you're aching for your favorite NCAA team to qualify for that big tournament, playoff or bowl game, you're going to want to learn the rankings system used within each division. No matter what…

The playoff selection process for the NCAA's two most popular sports, men's basketball and football, is relatively complex. Relying on formulas that determine each team's relative strength, the…

With cable sports packages and the Internet readily available, it's easier than ever to follow the NCAA playoff schedule. The two most well-known playoff tournaments are the men's basketball March…

Used to determine which 64 NCAA men's Division I basketball teams qualify for the annual March Madness tournament, the Rating Percentage Index is a measure of a team's regular season performance. It…

If you're good enough to play NCAA Division I or II collegiate sports, you'll have to get cleared by the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse before you're able to be seriously recruited, earn a…

As each school year comes to a close, parents have an important decision to make. The ability to register your son or daughter to be an NCAA athlete can be a daunting task. However, it is not as…