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By FABIAN ARDAYA
Cronkite News
GLENDALE – NCAA president Mark Emmert said at a Final Four news conference that the organization’s governing board will make a decision in the coming days about whether the NCAA will hold championship events again in North Carolina, where lawmakers have overturned House Bill 2.
More commonly known as “the bathroom bill,” HB 2 removed protections for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in North Carolina, drawing public protests. The NCAA decided to remove several of its events as a result.
“We’ll discuss and debate the issues over that timeframe, and then hopefully we’ll be in a place where we can announce what our board’s decision is the first part of next week,” Emmert said at the news conference held at University of Phoenix Stadium.