Author Biography
Bill Hancock has achieved a unique triple at the upper echelons of intercollegiate athletics. He was the first full-time director of the NCAA Final Four; the first Executive Director of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and is currently the first Executive Director of the College Football Playoff. Bill served for 13 years as director of the NCAA's Division I Men's Basketball Championship-the three-week March Madness, event that culminates with the Final Four Basketball Championship Tournament. Bill is a 1972 journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma. In the fall of 1971, he joined the staff of the university's athletics department as assistant sports information director. After his newspaper-publisher father died in 1974, Bill spent four years as editor of his family's daily newspaper, the Hobart, OK Democrat-Chief. He has been inducted into the halls of fame of the College Sports Information Directors and the All-College Basketball Classic. In 2010, the Kansas City Sports Commission honored him with its Outstanding People in Sports award. He was a 2012 winner of the Regents Alumni Award at the University of Oklahoma. Bill has served on the United States Olympic Committee staff at 11 Olympic Games and two Pan American games. His hobbies include grand-parenting, cycling, running, classical music and American history.
