NCAA pulls the plug on fall championships
The NCAA will not conduct fall championship events — a move that doesn’t effect major college football — because not enough schools are competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball.
NCAA President Mark Emmert made the announcement in video posted on Twitter, but it has been clear this was coming.
“Sadly, tragically that’s going to be the case this fall. Full stop,” Emmert said. “That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t and can’t turn toward winter and spring and say, ‘How can we create a legitimate championship for those students?’ There are ways to do this. I am completely confident we can figure this out.”
Last week the NCAA Board of Governors said championship events in a sport would canceled if fewer than 50% of the teams competing in that sports played a regular season.
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