The NCAA has announced that there will be no NCAA championships in fall sports this year, with FBS football being the only possible exception, since it does not come under the jurisdiction of the NCAA.
“We cannot now, at this point, have fall NCAA championships because there’s not enough schools participating,” said NCAA President Mark Emmert. “The Board of Governors also said if you don’t have half the schools playing the sport, you can’t have a legitimate championship. We can’t, in any NCAA Division-I championship sport now, which is everything other than FBS football, that goes on in the fall. Sadly and tragically, that’s going to be the case this fall. Full stop.”
There is the possibility of moving the fall sports, and their championships, to the spring. However, the priority for the NCAA will be making sure that winter and spring sports get to finish their seasons, since that didn’t happen this past year.
“We have to give highest priority to the winter and spring sports because they lost their championship last March,” Emmert said. “We made that horrible, awful, but necessary choice to shut down. Didn’t have Frozen Four. Didn’t have Final Four. Didn’t have World Series in softball and baseball. Track championships. Lacrosse. We lost all of that.”
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