NCAA picks Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as next president

The NCAA said Thursday it has chosen Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker arsenic its adjacent president, the enactment announced connected Thursday.

Baker volition commencement successful the presumption successful March, 2 months aft his 2nd word arsenic politician ends connected Jan. 5. He volition win Mark Emmert, who has held the relation since 2010.

Baker's inheritance successful authorities made him a apical prime for the NCAA, which has confronted a assortment of national ineligible and regulatory controversies successful caller years. The enactment was embroiled successful a Supreme Court lawsuit past twelvemonth over student-athlete compensation.

"Throughout the hunt process, Governor Baker's past of successfully forging bipartisan solutions to analyzable problems stood retired to the hunt committee arsenic uniquely suited to the NCAA's contiguous needs," the NCAA wrote successful a Thursday property release.

Emmert volition proceed consulting for the NCAA until June 2023.

Baker, a two-term Republican successful a predominantly Democratic state, is the archetypal NCAA president without a nonrecreational inheritance astatine higher acquisition institutions oregon assemblage sports. He did, however, play varsity hoops astatine Harvard.

Before serving 2 presumption arsenic politician successful Massachusetts, Baker held enforcement positions astatine a wellness attraction institution and was CEO of nonprofit Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.