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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. - Source: Wikipedia

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This is a March 12, 2020, file photo showing NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. The NCAA and many of its student-athletes are closely watching a court case in Pennsylvania that could determine whether Division I athletes should be paid for their time in the same way students are paid for work-study jobs. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) **FILE**

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Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, second from right, stands during a rally on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, outside of the NCAA Convention in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)

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South Carolina guard Zia Cooke, second from right, shoots over Georgia guard Audrey Warren, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Athens, Ga., Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz)

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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during a Juneteenth commemoration in Boston's Nubian Square, June 18, 2021. Baker will be the next president of the NCAA, replacing Mark Emmert as the head of the largest college sports governing body in the country. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Syracuse's Amferny Sinclair (5) celebrates after scoring a penalty kick against Indiana to win the NCAA college soccer tournament final in Cary, N.C., Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

Syracuse wins first men’s soccer title, beats Indiana on PKs

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Alana Gee, the widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to protect her husband from repetitive head trauma, leaves the Stanley Mosk civil courthouse of Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 21, 2022. Attorneys asked a jury Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, to award $55 million to Gee in the landmark case. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) **FILE**

Jury: NCAA not to blame in ex-USC football player’s death

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Alana Gee, the widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to protect her husband from repetitive head trauma, leaves the Stanley Mosk civil courthouse of Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. Matthew Gee died in 2018 from permanent brain damage caused by countless blows to the head he took while playing linebacker for the 1990 Rose Bowl winning team, according to the wrongful death suit filed by Alana Gee. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) **FILE**

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Louisville NCAA college basketball head coach Rick Pitino answers a question during the Atlantic Coast Conference men's media day in Charlotte, N.C., Oct. 26, 2016. An independent panel has fined Louisville $5,000 and placed the men’s basketball program on two years probation, but sparing the school major penalties from NCAA allegations leveled in the aftermath of a federal investigation of corruption in college basketball. The Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP) also declined to penalize former Cardinals coach Rick Pitino, whom the NCAA initially cited for failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)

Louisville escapes major sanctions in hoops bribery case

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In a photo provided by USC Athletics, former Southern California player Matthew Gee plays in an NCAA college football game. A lawsuit alleging that the NCAA failed to protect a former Gee from repeated concussions is nearing trial in a Los Angeles court, with a jury seated Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in what could become a landmark case. The suit filed by Gee's widow says the former USC linebacker died in 2018 from permanent brain damage caused by countless blows to the head he took while playing for the 1990 Rose Bowl-winning team. (USC Athletics via AP)

NCAA on trial in concussion case of dead USC football player

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Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson answers a question at the NCAA college football Atlantic Coast Conference Media Days in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, July 20, 2022. “You used to talk about graduation rates and majors,” Clawson said about recuiting. “Now the first question is, ‘What are you guaranteeing me year one, two, three and four?’” Clawson isn't necessarily talking about playing time, either. Prospects are far more familiar with ways they can profit off their fame through endorsement deals and are looking hard at whether schools can help them do it. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

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In this Sept. 18, 2010, file photo, former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon Jr. sits in his office in Henderson, Nev. NIL's blossoming started with a seed: a 2009 class-action lawsuit filed by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon that argued the NCAA should not be allowed to use the likeness of football and men's basketball players — past and present — to make money. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)

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Mississippi State center Teaira McCowan (15) and South Carolina forward A'ja Wilson (22) reach for the ball on the opening tipoff of the final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament Final Four, Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Dallas. The NCAA women's basketball title game will be broadcast on ABC for the first time this season. The championship game, which usually airs in primetime, will be played at 3 p.m. ET. The Final Four is in Dallas this year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) **FILE**

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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas speaks to her coach after winning the 500-meter freestyle during a meet with Harvard on Jan. 22, 2022, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Bans on transgender women in international swimming and rugby this week opened the door for track and field to consider following suit in what could turn into a wave of policy changes in Olympic sports. The announcement Sunday, June 19, 2022, by swimming's governing body, FINA, was followed quickly by a show of support from World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who was in Hungary for the swimming world championships. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) **FILE**

Lia Thomas knocked out of the running for 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year

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Delaware's Jasmine Dickey holds up the March Madness ticket following the second half of an NCAA college basketball championship game against Drexel in the Colonial Athletic Association Conference Tournament, Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Philadelphia. Delaware won 63-59. The NCAA has adequately addressed nine of 23 recommendations for creating comparable NCAA Tournament experiences for men's and women's basketball players, according to a progress report released Wednesday. July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File) **FILE**

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University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. World swimming’s governing body has adopted new rules for transgender athletes, only permitting swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. FINA members voted 71.5% in favor of the new “gender inclusion policy” at the organization’s extraordinary general congress on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Thomas made history in the United States as the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Riley Gaines: Lia Thomas’ NCAA Woman of the Year nomination ‘insulting’ to female athletes

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