NCAA: Pulling Seven Events Out of North Carolina
The NCAA finally followed the lead of the NBA and pulled several events out of the state of North Carolina.
The NCAA finally acted yesterday after months of suggesting that they would be moving championship events out of the state of North Carolina after a lack of revision to the HB2 law.
This comes after the NBA relocated the NBA All Star Game to New Orleans under similar rationale. In total, seven events will be moved from the state. The NCAA has also said that future events would likely not be coming to the state with the current status quo.
Of the seven events listed, the most noteworthy is the move of NCAA Tournament games out of Greensboro this upcoming March. With Duke and North Carolina likely to have tournament teams with high seeds, putting a game in nearby Greensboro was easy money for the NCAA. It also meant that between Greensboro, Raleigh, and Charlotte, the NCAA would play tournament games in the state every year. That will no longer be the case.
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The other six events that will be moved are as follows:
Division I women’s soccer championship College Cup, slated for Cary, N.C., Dec. 2 and 4.
Division III men’s and women’s soccer championship in Greensboro, Dec. 2-3.
Division I women’s golf championship regional in Greenville, May 8-10.
Division III men’s and women’s tennis championship in Cary, May 22-27.
Division I women’s lacrosse championship in Cary, May 26 and 28.
Division II baseball championship in Cary, May 27-June 3.
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If sheer number of events is considered than the big loser is the Raleigh suburb of Cary, which will be losing four events.
The ACC Football Championship in Charlotte will not be affected as it is not a NCAA sanctioned event. The Belk Bowl will likely also still be held in Charlotte although the NCAA could choose to decertify the bowl game. They might face resistance is doing so from the SEC and ACC according to reports from ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.
This move by the NCAA may mark the harshest reaction of any sports related group to the HB2 law. It has ended the spectacle of March basketball in the state for the near future.