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The NCAA spends more on average on male athletes than female ones, particularly when it comes to the “mere handful of championships” viewed as revenue sources, according to a new report.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament typically has the biggest spotlight when it reaches the Final Four, with the best teams – or luckiest – to have survived March Madness playing the final games to determine a national champion. Now imagine how it could look with the women’s tournament bringing its Final Four to the same city on the same weekend. The idea of a combined Final Four sounds attractive as a showcase for Division I college basketball and it is also one of the key...

USA TODAY The NCAA Division I Council on Monday recommended that the association temporarily "suspend amateurism rules" related to athletes ability to make money from their name, image and likeness, the association announced. The Council is the divisions day-to-day policy-making group, primarily comprising athletic administrators. Its recommendation now goes to the Division I Board of Directors, a panel comprising mainly college presidents that is the divisions top rules-making committee. The b...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — To hear many of those in charge of Division I programs tell it, the state of play for women’s sports could get worse, not better, under proposals that would put more money in the pockets of some college athletes. Via a new Associated Press survey of athletic directors, and in conversations with ADs and conference commissioners during March Madness, a picture emerged of concern for sports other than the two largest revenue-generators, football and men’s basketb...

In AP survey, ADs raise worries about womens college sports Follow Us Question of the Day FILE - Stanford players, top, and a Utah Valley player warm up before their college basketball game in the first round of the women’s NCAA tournament at the Alamodome in San Antonio, in this Sunday, March 21, 2021, file photo. ... more > By HOWARD FENDRICH and EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press - Thu...

Print AP Iona head coach Rick Pitino yells to his team in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Fairfield during the finals of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament, Saturday, March 13, 2021, in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Credit: The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Rick Pitino ended an Iona team photo, a championship trophy as the c...

Friends, family (but no public tix) OKd for MAAC tournament WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Friends and relatives of players will be allowed to attend the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference basketball tournament in limited numbers next month, but no tickets will be sold to the public, the organization said Friday. In keeping with recently loosened restrictions on indoor sporting events issued by Gov. Phil Murphy, the MAAC said it will allow “a ...