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FILE — Spectators crowd center court at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex during the UCLA and North Carolina women’s doubles match in the NCAA Division I tennis championships, May 20, 2014, in Athens, Ga.
FILE — Spectators crowd center court at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex during the UCLA and North Carolina women’s doubles match in the NCAA Division I tennis championships, May 20, 2014, in Athens, Ga.
The NCAA men’s and women’s tennis tournaments opened Friday, and what should be a time of celebration for the sport has had a pall cast over it with more Division I schools announcing this week they would be dropping their programs because of the new financial realities in college athletics.
Arkansas announced a week ago it would drop its men’s and women’s programs and Saint Louis followed Monday with the same announcement. Illinois State said Tuesday it would end its men’s program, and North Dakota said Thursday it would shut down its men’s and women’s teams. Gardner-Webb announced in February this would be the last season for the men’s and women’s programs.
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