Ole Miss Athletics Director Keith Carter will now have a say in how March Madness shapes up.
The NCAA announced Carter as one of four new members to the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee on Thursday. He will serve a five-year term on the committee. In this role, he will be primarily responsible for selecting, seeding, and bracketing the field of teams for the annual NCAA Tournament.
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A former Rebel All-American basketball player and current administrator at Ole Miss, Carter’s time as the head of the athletics department has marked one of the most successful periods in history of the university. Since taking the helm in 2019, Ole Miss has seen two team national champions (baseball and women’s golf), record postseason results across all sports, and four teams ranked No. 1 in the country.
Prior to his appointment to his current post, Carter served as the Deputy A.D. for Development and Resource Acquisition with the Rebels. He joined the athletics department in Oxford in September 2009, spending seven years as Executive Director for the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation.
Under his guidance, the Foundation experienced its four highest years for donations, and in 2016, Carter received the Fundraiser of the Year Award from the National Association of Athletic Development Directors.
On the hardwood, Carter left his mark as a four-year starter at Ole Miss and helped lead the Rebels to a pair of SEC Western Division titles (1997 and 1998). An All-American as a senior in 1999, he received all-conference honors in 1998 and 1999 and sits in the top 10 for career points in a Rebel uniform with 1,682.