INDIANAPOLIS--- Two well-respected administrators with extensive basketball background have been named to the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee.

Bernard Muir, a former men’s basketball student-athlete at Brown University and a former director of the NCAA men’s basketball championship, along with Mark Hollis, who is credited with developing some of college basketball’s most innovative events, will begin their terms September 1, 2012. The duo will replace current committee chair Jeff Hathaway, a consultant to the Big East Conference, and University of Texas-San Antonio Director Athletics Lynn Hickey, whose terms expire August 31.

Hollis is credited with conceptualizing the "BasketBowl," establishing a then-world record crowd of 78,129 who witnessed a 2003 game between the Spartans and the University of Kentucky at Detroit’s Ford Field. The concept, which involves placing the court in the center of the stadium, has been used at the past three Final Fours. It was also Hollis’ vision that led to Michigan State playing the University of North Carolina in November in the first basketball game to be played on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

During Hollis’ tenure, the Spartans have appeared in 14 consecutive NCAA tournaments, including six Final Fours. He is chair of the Division I Amateurism Cabinet and a member of the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Issues Committee.

"I’m both excited and humbled to be appointed to the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee," Hollis said. "The growth of college basketball since my first level of involvement as a student manager in 1980 has been quite remarkable. I have the greatest respect of those who have impacted the sport, including those with the NCAA office and those having served on this committee. With new opportunities and formidable challenges on the horizon, I take seriously the anticipated contributions that come with serving the NCAA membership as part of this esteemed group."

The committee will be chaired in 2012-13 by Mike Bobinski, the director of athletics at Xavier University. Other committee members include Ron Wellman, the director of athletics at Wake Forest University; Doug Fullerton, the commissioner of the Big Sky Conference; Scott Barnes, the director of athletics at Utah State University; Steve Orsini, the director of athletics at Southern Methodist University; Joe Alleva, the director of athletics at Louisiana State University; Jamie Zaninovich, the commissioner of the West Coast Conference; and Joe Castiglione, the director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma.

The final regular season game against OSU will tip at 4p on March 4 and be televised on CBS.