Craig Littlepage

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Craig Littlepage (born August 5, 1951, in La Mott, PA) is the athletic director at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was named to that position in 2001 and has been with the school as an administrator since 1990.

Littlepage played basketball for the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn's Wharton School in 1973 with a degree in economics. He served as an assistant coach at Villanova University and Yale University before coming to the University of Virginia in 1976 as an assistant coach for Terry Holland. Littlepage's alma mater Penn hired him as head coach in 1982. He then was hired as head coach by Rutgers University in 1985. After Littlepage was dismissed as head coach of the Scarlet Knights in 1988, he returned to Virginia and again served as an assistant until 1990 when Holland resigned and was replaced by Jeff Jones.

In 2006, he headed the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Committee. The committee's most prominent duty is to select the 65 teams that participate in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The process takes place over four days in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the NCAA is headquartered.

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