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DATE: THURSDAY, July 12, 1990                   TAG: 9007120250
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: OVERLAND PARK, KAN.                                LENGTH: Medium

NCAA DEVELOPS PLAN TO ALLOCATE TV MONEY

The NCAA will distribute about $115 million to its members during the 1990-91 budget year, said Judy Sweet, director of athletics at the University of California-San Diego and chairwoman of the special committee that developed the plan.

The NCAA Executive Committee will vote on the proposals at its August meeting and if approved, the measures would take effect with the 1991-92 school year.

Some $70 million to $75 million will be shared among Division I members according to a distribution formula that has two parts, she said. That compares to $36 million annually shared in the past.

Sweet said the first pool is based on a conference's or independent team's performance in the Division I men's basketball tournament. The second is a broad-based program that will include the institution's sports sponsorships and the number of grants-in-aid it provides.

Sweet and NCAA executive director Dick Schultz said the amount individual institutions will receive has not been determined. But according to the formula, the increase in revenue institutions will get through their conferences will range from 58 to 200 percent.

Schultz said that according to the new basketball tournament pool, flat payments for progression through the tournament no longer will be used. Instead, the revenue from the tournament will be based on a conference's performance in the tournament over a six-year rolling average beginning with the 1985-90 period. Shares will go to conferences for distribution to institutions.