NCAA President Mark Emmert received a vote of confidence from the organization’s Board of Governors on Saturday, an endorsement that came in the wake of widespread criticism of inequalities between the staging of the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments under his watch.
“I think there’s a clear understanding that the NCAA fell short in San Antonio,” DeGioia said, “but a recognition that the response has been commensurate with the challenge and now we’ve got important work in front of us that we will need to engage.”
The NCAA last week hired a law firm to review possible gender equity issues at all of the championship events. The tournaments have long had widely different budgets and been branded and promoted differently. Emmert blamed a lack of communication between the staffs of the tournaments and a focus on coronavirus protocols for the differences this year.
“I think it would be fair to say that Mark took this very, very seriously and all of my conversations with him — we have had several over the last 10 days — at no point did I ever have the sense that he wasn’t engaging this with the greatest seriousness possible,” DeGioia said. “And I think the evidence of that was his move to bring in the [Heckler] Kaplan firm.”
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