Universities cutting sports, others adding ahead of $2.8B NCAA settlement

May 18, 2025

By Associated Press via Arizona Sports: Over the past three months, a growing number of universities have added or dropped entire sports programs on the eve of dramatic changes coming to college athletics under the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement.

UTEP dropped women’s tennis, Cal Poly discontinued swimming and diving, Marquette added women’s swimming and Grand Canyon shuttered a historically dominant men’s volleyball program. It was a dizzying set of decisions that appears to offer no pattern except one: Every school is facing a choice on which programs to carry forward once the money really starts flowing.

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Colleges cutting sports, others adding ahead of NCAA settlement

A number of U.S. universities have added or dropped sports programs on the eve of changes coming to college athletics under the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement.

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