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March Madness was incredible, and it all culminates tonight in the National Championship game. Our very own San Diego State has defied the odds and will ...

That will play into the Aztec’s favor if it ends up being the case. On the “home” side of things, San Diego State has been absolutely magical during the tournament. The Huskies have blown away the competition during the tournament, winning every game by at least 13 points and beating three of the five teams by over 20 points.

UConn faces San Diego State on Monday night in the NCAA men's basketball tournament championship game. The Huskies are undefeated in four national title ...

The Huskies were the lowest seed to win the tournament since No. 3 seed in the West Region and defeated No. 2 seed San Diego State and its star, Kawhi Leonard, in the Sweet 16 and No. The Huskies entered the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 in the AP poll, while UConn was No. UConn was the No. They were the No. The Blue Devils, the No. UConn entered the season ranked first in the AP poll for the second time in school history. 1 according to KenPom and the only team ranked among the top 10 in adjusted offensive efficiency (third) and adjusted defensive efficiency (eighth). 2 in the AP poll before losing six of their next eight games and dropping to No. The Huskies started 14-0 and rose to No.

The 2023 NCAA Tournament Championship Game has been finalized, and after a wild Saturday in the Final Four, it will be No. 4 UConn squaring off against No.

The 2023 Aztecs are just the third team ever to win back-to-back NCAA Tournament games by exactly one point (2018 Loyola, 1981 Saint Josephs) and just the second team ever to win back-to-back tournament games in the final two seconds. Check out the TV and streaming information for the 2023 NCAA Tournament Championship Game between No. The idea of 1999 sounded futuristic once, and then still felt recent, but here in 2023 it's becoming a fair starting point for modern history era of college basketball. Any coach will boast about their league being "the best in the country," but Dan Hurley's been able to speak to it from a different perspective given UConn's results this year. [not to call timeout](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/2023-final-four-why-san-diego-state-coach-brian-dutcher-didnt-call-timeout-before-dramatic-buzzer-beater/) and let his players decide the national semifinal will remain a fascinating angle to the final moments of the Aztecs' epic buzzer-beater over FAU on Saturday night. History has played a significant role in the blue-blood discussion. Hurley has pointed out, however, that UConn's setback came in the grind of a tough Big East, where the Huskies finished fourth with a 13-7 league record. UConn's charge is for the restoration of glory, yes, but more specifically the journey it's taken to build to this point and the upperclassmen who have been a part of it. But those are just a few of the many layers to this national championship. Back-to-back one-point wins in the Elite Eight and Final Four also put San Diego State in exclusive company among notable clutch performances in tournament history. 5 San Diego State on Monday night in Houston (9:20 p.m., CBS) with one of those teams cutting down the nets. Each team has its own unique motivations, too, like the five San Diego State players who won 30 games and were trending towards a top-two seed prior to the

UConn topped off an impressive March Madness run on Monday night, clamping down early and breaking it open late to bring home their fifth national title.

Unable to shoot over, or go around, this tall, long UConn team, they missed 14 straight shots from the floor. But Jordan Hawkins (16 points) answered with a three to trigger a 9-0 run and the only drama left was whether UConn would go six for six with double-digit wins. UConn set the stage for their win during an 11:07 stretch in the first half during which the Aztecs didn’t make a single basket.

In beating the San Diego State Aztecs for the national championship, the UConn Huskies capped a historically dominant March Madness run in the 2023 men's ...

UConn, however, is the lone champion to win all of its games by at least 13 points. In the Sweet 16, UConn cruised past No. 5 San Diego State](/news/sports/uconn-squares-off-against-san-diego-state-for-ncaa-national-championship/) in the 2023 men's national title game at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday. In securing the program's fifth national championship, the Huskies finished off a historically dominant NCAA Tournament run. UConn's dominance of out-of-conference foes wasn't anything new, either. The Huskies began the Big Dance with an 87-63 blowout of No.

Sunday's Iowa-LSU game drew double last year's audience for the championship.

Women’s title games in recent years—such as last year, when 4.85 million watched [South Carolina beat UConn](https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-11649038609?mod=article_inline)—have been shown on Disney’s ESPN, which is in fewer homes than broadcast stations. [102-85 win over Iowa](https://www.wsj.com/articles/lsu-iowa-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-3be3f3dd?mod=article_inline), in a title game shown on Walt Disney Co. [30% off eBay coupon](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/ebay)

Be smart: The viewership numbers show that women's sports can compete with major sporting events from the major men's leagues. The NBA Finals averaged 9.89 ...

That deal [expires](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-espn-ncaa/espn-ncaa-extend-deal-through-2023-24-idUSTRE7BE2FM20111215)in the 2023-2024 season. [the women's basketball tournament](https://www.sportico.com/leagues/basketball/2022/womens-tournament-march-madness-branding-tv-1234669526/). [Women's sports commanding bigger rights deals](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/womens-sports-commanding-bigger-rights-deals) [noted](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/womens-sports-commanding-bigger-rights-deals). The viewership success shows there's ample interest in women's sports, especially if they're given a bigger platform. [notes](https://twitter.com/_emcaron/status/1643016355338231811).

The average 9.9 million viewers for Louisiana State topping Iowa was significantly more than the previous record of 5.7 million for an N.C.A.A. women's ...

estimates that the women’s tournament could be worth at least $85 million in 2025, compared with just $6 million in ESPN’s current agreement. [broke the previous record by millions](https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/womens-final-four-ratings-history-espn/) — 5.68 million for the 2002 Connecticut vs. Charlie Baker, the association’s new president, suggested over the weekend that the women’s tournament could get its own deal next year. Leaders in women’s basketball have long fought for maximizing the tournament’s TV rights as a way to help a steep imbalance with the men's game. Peak viewership hovered around 12.6 million views and overall viewership was about double the viewership of the championship game last year. The game was, for the first time in decades, on ABC, ESPN’s parent network, as Louisiana State’s rebounding star Angel Reese and Iowa’s dazzling 3-point shooter Caitlin Clark put on a show. women’s tournament game, achieved in 2002 when Connecticut won the title. Oklahoma championship, when the Huskies were led by Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Asjha Jones, Tamika Williams and Diana Taurasi. [viewership was already up 42 percent](https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/03/ncaa-womens-tournament-ratings-record-viewership-elite-eight-sweet-16-espn/) compared with last year’s tournament. “It’s about time women’s basketball gets this kind of viewership, and it can only go up.” “The game is evolving in such a great way. I’m glad you’re tuning in now, but keep it up.”

UConn's Tristen Newton is lifted in the postgame celebrations after the Huskies won the NCAA Tournament final on Monday, April 3. Brynn Anderson/AP.

All of UConn’s titles have come since 1999 with the most recent before Monday occurring in 2014. “We weren’t ranked going into the year so we had the chip on our shoulder,” UConn head coach Dan Hurley told game broadcaster CBS. If it were not for them I would not be here right now,” Sanogo told CBS.

The 2023 NCAA men's tournament came to a close on Monday night, with the UConn Huskies capping off a dominant run with a 76-59 victory over the San Diego…

2 seeds from a trip to the Final Four in the process. The second round then claimed No. 2 seed Texas as the last team standing from the top-two seed lines. A tip of the cap to No. 1 and No. The Cinderella story ended two days later when Florida Atlantic sent them packing, but it was just the second time in tournament history that a No. 3 seed Kansas State to claim the East Region title. 1 seeds in the Elite Eight, it was a March Madness for the books. They shot just 5-of-26 from beyond the arc and turned it over 16 times en route to a 63-58 upset for the Knights. 1 seed Purdue, which was the 25th game overall in this year's NCAA tournament. "If you take NCAA men's basketball knowledge into the formula, the odds of picking a perfect bracket [can be](https://www.insidescience.org/news/quantum-leap-basketball-bracketology) as low as 1 in 28 billion." Despite the David vs.

With the UConn Huskies claiming the title, "One Shining Moment" returned to recap what was yet again an enthralling 2023 men's NCAA Tournament.

No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson upsetting No. 5 San Diego State 76-59](/news/sports/uconn-squares-off-against-san-diego-state-for-ncaa-national-championship) in the national championship game on Monday, which capped off another year of dramatic upsets and thrilling finishes.

UConn is the men's champ after completing one of the most dominant March Madness runs in history. And we're still thinking about the wild women's final ...

(Play was stopped while everybody waited for LSU to shoot a free throw.) Clark spent the last quarter of the game matador-ing away from steal attempts, knowing she couldn’t risk getting disqualified. Czinano was particularly important for Iowa in the paint and represented Iowa’s only hope of going head-to-head with LSU’s powerful post players; Czinano’s backup, Addison O’Grady, played a season-high 18 minutes. You could see the confidence and exuberance returning to her after one of the coldest shooting streaks of her life had exiled her to the bench; that energy flowed through her and into her teammates. All of these people need to watch women’s college basketball, where officials yearn to take over games and force players to adhere to their own personal opinions about how players should behave on the court. Over the course of March Madness, the Iowa guard set the record for the most points in an NCAA tournament, most assists in a women’s NCAA tournament, most 3s in an NCAA tournament, and most taunts in an NCAA tournament, hitting her unfortunate opponents with John Cena’s “You can’t see me” move. She was their most consistent shooter—arguably their only consistent shooter—and peaked when she drilled seven 3s in a game against Florida. There was a brief moment of drama when San Diego State cut the deficit to five points in the second half—I almost thought the Aztecs were going to cover the seven-point spread—but this was UConn’s championship, and it had been clear that it was UConn’s championship to win for most of the past two weeks. But the Aztecs shot worse than 40 percent in three of their six tourney games, and their 32.2 percent on Monday night wasn’t even their worst shooting performance in the past month: They shot 20-for-63 (31.7 percent) in the Mountain West championship game against Utah State. They trailed in the second half of a game only once, and for about 40 seconds, in the entire tournament; their average margin of victory was 20 points. There’s nothing more draining than getting your hopes up every single time a shot goes in the air and watching it clang away. The Huskies’ shining moment was a solid month of squeezing the life out of their opposition. And as a fan of mid-major hoops, I was pulling for them throughout their improbable run to the national championship game.

HOUSTON—Capping off a wild tournament defined by surprising underdog victories, the NCAA awarded the national championship title Monday to Duke University ...

“After 40 minutes of riveting basketball between San Diego State and the University of Connecticut in a tourney where it often seemed like anyone’s game, it is my privilege to award the championship trophy to head coach Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils,” NCAA president Charlie Baker said as Duke players and fans stormed the court to celebrate while the defeated Aztecs and Huskies squads headed back to their locker rooms in disappointment. Let the history books show that the Blue Devils won a thrilling, hard-fought game over Kentucky after beating Kansas in the Final Four round, with lesser-known teams like San Diego State, Florida Atlantic University, and Creighton serving as fun little footnotes.” Following the game, the NCAA unveiled restrictions that would prevent all but the 10 most popular teams nationally from recruiting new players for next season. But it should surprise no one that the balance of power has been restored, and Duke just picked up its sixth national championship.

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Here is a complete list of every player to be the Final Four Most Outstanding Player since the first NCAA tournament in 1939. This includes every school and ...

[1973 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-18/1973-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). [1993 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-14/1993-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). [2005 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-07/2005-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). [1952 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-27/1952-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article) with 141 total points over four games. [NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-15/1945-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article) with 65 points, 22 of which came in the title game against NYU. [1989 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-12/1989-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article), averaging 30.7 points per game. [1940 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-27/1940-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). Louisville's Pervis Ellison took home the honor in 1986, just the second freshman to do so at that point — Arnie Ferrin (Utah, 1944). Hogue erupted for 36 points (12-of-18-shooting) and 19 rebounds in the national semifinals against UCLA. In the national semifinals against Kansas, Dixon scored a game-high 33 points (10-of-18 shooting) while adding three rebounds, two assists and two steals. N/A He finished with 20 points (7-of-14 shooting), nine rebounds and four assists in the national semifinals against Villanova.

UConn's 76-59 victory ended a dominant tournament run in which it won every game by double figures.

He said he “sucked” when he first started coaching in high school, and revealed that he had taken up painting at the suggestion of his wife, while acknowledging that he is no Picasso. 9 — to play in the championship game. “We knew we were the best team in the tournament going in, and we just had to play like it.” “It was that March feeling — wow, this is happening,” said Trammell, whose free throw with 1.2 seconds left had beaten Creighton in the South Regional final. After Joey Calcaterra buried a 3-pointer to put Connecticut ahead, 56-41, the Aztecs mustered a final charge. “As a basketball player, if you don’t walk in there and feel inspired by that, I don’t know what’s going to inspire you.” Hurley convened his three cornerstones — Sanogo, Jackson and Hawkins — and promised them he would put a better roster around them, dotted with perimeter shooters who wouldn’t shrink in big moments. Since the last title nine years ago, Kevin Ollie, a former Husky himself, was fired and then filed suit to win back salary, In their march to the national championship, they won their six tournament games by 24, 15, 23, 28, 13 and 17 points. San Diego State, which had never before advanced past the round of 16, was trying to replicate what Kansas did a year ago, rallying from 15 points down in the second half to claim a championship. When the final buzzer sounded, Newton jumped off the edge of the elevated court and into the arms of family members wearing his No. The Huskies walked into soiled hotel rooms when they arrived in Las Vegas for their first games in the N.C.A.A.

The Huskies' national title comes amid a confluence of events for the Big East that has the league surging toward the trappings of another era of ...

But he pointed out that the current Fox deal was regarded as a boon for the Big East, as Fox needed tonnage of content at the time in order to help FS1's launch in 2013. "That's helping lift the sport," she said of the women's game. It's a question Ackerman has plenty of experience navigating, as she was the founding president of the WNBA back in 1996. "Societal currents are changing for the betterment of women's sports," she said. There are headwinds from the current economy, a glut of basketball content that networks have tied to football deals and the generally sluggish ratings in the regular season. "Obviously, media deals are critical to conferences, and the Big East is unique because it isn't engaged with football." "UConn found itself not really having an identity for a while, and the Big East gave us that identity back," Huskies athletic director David Benedict told ESPN. It also came with a potential television pay cut, as AAC schools are expected to average nearly $7 million per school in media-only money over the course of the current television deal, which runs through 2032. We should know the answer of that value in nearly a year. The 11 schools are believed to get an annual cut of a distribution that is believed to be in the mid-to-high $40 million range. "I do think that we have the notion that this could help elevate the relative value of basketball to football and other sports," Ackerman said. UConn's title win delivers the Big East three of the past seven national titles in men's basketball.

They dominated throughout the tournament with one of the most impressive runs March Madness history to pick up the program's fifth national men's basketball ...

"But we ran into too good of a team." This was a team built strictly for 2023 - replenished by Hurley, who went to the transfer portal to find more outside shooting after back-to-back first-round exits in the tournament. But a team built on defense finished the game only shooting 32% from the floor. I think there were people in the stands that thought, 'Hey, they're capable of doing it again,' and we were," Dutcher said. "We knew the level that we could play at, even through those dark times." Sanogo averaged 19.7 points and 9.8 rebounds over UConn's six-game cruise through the tournament. 4 for this Final Four full of underdogs, set the stage for this win over an 11:07 stretch in the first half during which the Aztecs didn't make a basket. Be kind," Nantz said as part of his final sign-off from the Final Four. One of the Fab Five, current Wolverines coach Juwan Howard, was there to console his former coach. They won those six games by an average of an even 20 points, only a fraction less than what North Carolina did in sweeping to the title in 2009. But Jordan Hawkins (16 points), - whose cousin, Angel Reese, won MOP honors the night before to help "It's absolutely amazing that we both get this opportunity," Hawkins said.

Who can forget FAU, Fairleigh Dickinson over Purdue or Markquis Nowell taking over Madison Square Garden? Those are the moments that we'll remember.

The title game just won't be one of them. The 73 years young coach was movin' and groovin’ in the Hurricanes' locker room after every win. Tom Izzo conjured up his old March magic, leading Michigan State to a second-round win over Marquette, which had come into the tournament as one of the hottest teams in the country. Nowell had an NCAA single-game record 19 assists, the best of which was his no-look lob to Keyontae Johnson for an alley-oop with less than a minute left in regulation. Dutcher, who toiled as an assistant for 28 years before becoming the head coach at San Diego State six years ago, got his first win in the NCAA tournament. We should have known then that this was going to be the year of upsets and upstarts. Making the Owls’ run even more impressive, they’d never even won a tournament game before this year! “The state of basketball is in good shape right now,” San Diego State coach Brian Dutcher said after the championship game. Now it’s got a permanent place in national lore, only the The first 62 games offered all kinds of fun and that, rather than this atrocity, should be the lasting memory of this year’s men’s tournament. Most people had never heard of the small, private school in New Jersey before last month. It was the lowest-scoring title game since 2015, and UConn wouldn’t have cracked 70 points if not for that flurry of free throws in the final 90 seconds.

One of the few sure things in an unpredictable March Madness was the Huskies' ability to rise above the chaos around them.

[hotel switch](https://www.thedailybeast.com/uconn-basketball-reportedly-arrived-to-vomit-filled-hotel-rooms-in-vegas) in Las Vegas because rooms were left in a grim state by the previous guests. It was only UConn’s fourth appearance in the national tournament since winning it in 2014 and the first occasion since 2016 that they progressed past the second round. [Fairleigh Dickinson ousted Purdue](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/17/fairleigh-dickinson-purdue-upset-ncaa-tournament-march-madness) in perhaps the biggest upset in March Madness history, a 16 seed bumping off a number 1. That’s just really the way my mind works.” He did, though, allow that the result was a “dream come true for all of us” – including his son, Andrew, a walk-on, who was in possession as the game ended. “Maybe I don’t do a great job kissing the media’s ass and presenting this image that’s incredibly likable but I am who I am. A tight deficit expanded to a baggy 16 points. He wears brown bead bracelets to keep him grounded, practices yoga and meditation, drinks mushroom coffee and lights [perfumed candles](https://www.ctpost.com/sports/article/A-day-with-UConn-s-Dan-Hurley-The-basketball-16253614.php) in his office, such as a fragrance called “confidence + freedom” which could easily have been named in honour of his players. [were even more busted](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/mar/20/ncaa-tournament-upsets-16-seeds-transfer-portal) than usual. “Being such an intense, fiery coach, people have always focused more on the sideline antics than my total body of work over the course of my career,” growled Hurley, who led Rhode Island to two March Madness appearances. “The amount of missed layups … Not that the joy was unconfined. Nothing – not dirty hotel rooms, dodgy calamari, a bus burglary or one of college basketball’s most vaunted defenses – was going to deny Connecticut.

UConn completed its dominant run through the NCAA tournament on Monday night, defeating San Diego State in Houston 76-59 to win the Huskies' fifth national ...

The Huskies were opportunistic in transition in the first half, with Newton and "Before the game started, my coaches told me I need to be aggressive and look to this quarter to win the game," Newton said. Meanwhile, San Diego State was in a familiar position; the Aztecs had overcome deficits of eight points or more in three straight NCAA tournament games entering the title game. A 16-4 run put the game out of reach. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, San Diego State was 1-for-11 on contested paint shots in the first half. By that point, San Diego State had missed 14 straight shots from the field, and UConn had opened up a double-digit lead. But after going up 10-6 with 16:32 remaining in the first half, the Aztecs went cold. It wasn't the end of the game. The Huskies are also the fifth team since 1985 to win all six of their games by double digits. It wasn't even the end of the first half. Fifty years from now, the Huskies' run to a title will seem like something of a surprise on paper. [UConn](/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401522202) assistant coach Tom Moore embraced guard [Tristen Newton](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4592965/tristen-newton) in a big hug as he walked toward the bench.

UConn completed an impressive stretch during the NCAA Tournament with a 76-59 win vs. San Diego State.

It's been difficult to put a pin in UConn as a blue blood of the sport even in the midst of obvious success, perhaps because of the coaching turnover in recent years. [Saint Mary's](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/MARYCA/saint-marys-gaels/)70-55 [Arkansas](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/ARK/arkansas-razorbacks/)88-65 [Miami](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/MIAMI/miami-fla-hurricanes/)72-59 [Indiana](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/IND/indiana-hoosiers/) to win every game by at least 13 points, as the Hoosiers only had five games in that title run. [being named the Most Outstanding Player](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-championship-adama-sanogo-joins-place-among-uconn-legends-after-earning-most-outstanding-player-honors/) of the Final Four. The Huskies have announced their return to the [top of the sport](https://www.cbssports.com/) with a win that caps a historic tournament run, with plenty of ways to consider this 2023 title season as one of the best in the modern era. Only [UCLA](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UCLA/ucla-bruins/) (11), [Kentucky](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UK/kentucky-wildcats/) (8) and [North Carolina](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UNC/north-carolina-tar-heels/) (6) have more titles than the Huskies, and all of those titles have been won in a shorter window than any of those other programs in the top six. That 2011 UConn team is also the last team to start the season unranked in the preseason AP Top 25 poll and finish as national champions. The Big East, Hurley argues, is the toughest conference in the country and the splits between UConn's conference record (13-7) and non-conference record (17-0) at least speaks to something unique about this Huskies' squad. Dan Hurley made a comment that the Huskies' only struggles this season, a 2-6 run from late December to late January, came when they started Big East play. Each of the four players ahead of him were all the leading scorers, like Sanogo, for a national championship team. This was a program that lost its footing in the national landscape for a few years, but has steadied under Dan Hurley and now he and this 2023 team get to claim their own stake to the title-winning history of UConn basketball. The defense even got better as the tournament wore on, as no team from the Sweet 16 on shot better than [Gonzaga's](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/GONZAG/gonzaga-bulldogs/) 33.3% in the Elite Eight.

UConn clinched their fifth men's NCAA championship since 1999 with a win over San Diego State - and students and fans flocked to the campus to embark on ...

Thousands of fans flooded UConn's campus late Monday night to celebrate the Huskies capturing the men's NCAA national championship with some causing damage ...

UConn secured their fifth NCAA Division title on the back of double-doubles from Adama Sanogo and Tr...

We're disappointed in the loss, but there's a brotherhood in the locker room that will never be divided by a margin of victory or not winning at all. I've just got so much admiration for how they play and their coach, he's one of the best coaches in the country." We had to be at our best to win the game. It's just great to come through on promises made to these players and the university. We weren't at our best. "It's part of the programme, we sold the vision – I sold the vision to the university that I could put together a special group of people, a coaching staff, and unbelievable players like this, so it feels great to come through.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was sued in California federal court on Tuesday in a proposed class action that alleges thousands of ...

Division I is the top level of college sports in the United States, including big money makers football and basketball as well as many other sports. The case is Hubbard et al v. National Collegiate Athletic Association et al, U.S. [the complaint](https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmpjkbzzzvr/Hubbard%20v.%20NCAA%20-%20N.D.%20CA%20-%202023-04-04.pdf) against the NCAA, which is the governing body for U.S. More than 50 schools have since started to offer those payments. The lawsuit alleged an unlawful conspiracy to bar cash awards for academic success.