After engineering the fourth-largest improvement in the NCAA, men's basketball coach James Whitford signed a contract extension through the 2020-21 season.
Ball State finished the 2015-16 season with a 21-14 record, a 14-win increase from the previous season's 7-23 record. It was also the Cardinals' first 20-win season since the 2001-02 season.
The Cardinals also finished tied for first in the Mid-American Conference West Division with a 10-8 record.
Ball State advanced to the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament in the program's first postseason appearance since 2002.
Whitford has also been hitting the recruiting trail, signing Jontrell Walker, a transfer from Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, and incoming freshman Zach Hollywood from Bradley, Illinois, to scholarship papers earlier today.