IRVING, Texas (AP) The Big 12 Conference has passed a measure under which schools could face fines or even the loss of future home games for failing to control fans who storm courts or rush fields after games.
Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday at the league's spring meetings that he's been given broad prerogatives to deal with such issues.
In February, Bowlsby publicly reprimanded Kansas State for failing to prevent Wildcats fans from pouring onto the court after the school's men's basketball upset victory over rival and then eighth-ranked Kansas
Bowlsby said then that revisions to policies must guarantee that no such incidents like that should occur in the future.
The Southeastern Conference has been fining its schools since 2004, and plans to substantially increase fines for such violations.
