COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has been named a member of the new NCAA Commission on College Basketball.

The commission, announced on Wednesday, will focus on "examining critical aspects of a system that clearly is not working," NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement.

The commission will be chaired by former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Smith is will serve on the College Football Playoff selection committee beginning this year, and has served on the NCAA men's basketball tournament selection committee in the past.

The commission comes in the wake of an FBI investigation into college basketball, and its association with shoe companies and other outside entities that resulted in the arrest of four assistant coaches.

In the statement released Tuesday, Emmert said the commission will focus on three areas:

1. The relationship of the NCAA national office, member institutions, student-athletes and coaches with outside entities, including: Apparel companies and other commercial entities, to establish an environment where they can support programs in a transparent way, but not become an inappropriate or distorting influence on the game, recruits or their families.

* Nonscholastic basketball, with a focus on the appropriate involvement of college coaches and others.

* Agents or advisors, with an emphasis on how students and their families can get legitimate advice without being taken advantage of, defrauded or risk their NCAA eligibility.

2. The NCAA's relationship with the NBA, and the challenging effect the NBA's so-called "one and done" rule has had on college basketball, including how the NCAA can change its own eligibility rules to address that dynamic.

3. Creating the right relationship between the universities and colleges of the NCAA and its national office to promote transparency and accountability. The commission will be asked to evaluate whether the appropriate degree of authority is vested in the current enforcement and eligibility processes, and whether the collaborative model provides the investigative tools, cultural incentives and structures to ensure exploitation and corruption cannot hide in college sports.

The commission will begin working in November, and deliver any recommendations on policy changes to the boards in April.

"We need to do right by student-athletes," Emmert said. "I believe we can -- and we must -- find a way to protect the integrity of college sports by addressing both sides of the coin: fairness and opportunity for college athletes, coupled with the enforcement capability to hold accountable those who undermine the standards of our community."