University President Mary Sue Coleman told reporters tonight that she didn’t have any new information regarding the NCAA’s investigation into the football team’s potential practice time rules violations, according to The Associated Press.

Before tonight’s Michigan men’s basketball game against Indiana, Coleman said she doesn’t know when the NCAA will inform the University of the investigation’s findings, but emphasized that she is not worried.

"I want to see what the issues are and we'll deal with the issues," she told the AP.

Though NCAA Vice President of Enforcement David Price wrote in a letter to Coleman in October that the University would be notified of the NCAA’s findings by Dec. 31, 2009, University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham told The Michigan Daily at the end of the year that the University hadn’t been contacted by the governing body.

“We haven’t received word from the NCAA,” Cunningham wrote in an e-mail to the Daily at the time.

The NCAA has been investigating an alleged violation by the football team of NCAA restrictions on practice time and off-season workouts.

In late August, The Detroit Free Press reported that several former football players described a practice schedule for the team that would violate NCAA rules.

Shortly after, the University launched an internal investigation on the issue, and Athletic Director Bill Martin released a statement affirming the University’s dedication to following NCAA standards.

“We continue to cooperate with the NCAA on this matter, which is why we reached out to both the Big Ten and the NCAA as soon as we heard the allegations,” Martin wrote in the statement. “We remain committed to following both the letter and the intent of the NCAA rules.”

At the start of the investigation, Coleman released a statement assuring that the University strongly values the honesty of the Athletic Department and will comply with the procedures of the investigation.

“As I said at the onset of this review, we place the highest importance on the well-being of our student-athletes and the integrity of our program,” Coleman wrote in the statement. “We continue to work with the NCAA to ensure that a thorough and objective investigation occurs.”

Though Coleman released the statement at the start of the investigation, she was largely silent on the issue until last night.

At the University Board of Regents November meeting Coleman did not make herself available for comment after the meeting, something she normally does. At the same meeting, Regent Andrew Richner (R–Grosse Pointe Park) read a statement saying the Regents would not comment on the matter.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions would be responsible for reviewing the NCAA’s findings if it discovers any major violations by the Michigan football team. The University would then face a possible hearing process regarding the issue.

— The Associated Press and Daily News Editor Nicole Aber contributed to this report.