This is an April 25, 2018, file photo, showing NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. As 2020 came to a
close, there were at least 116 Division I programs at 34 schools slated for the chopping block, with
that number expected to grow. A debate was brewing about whether there was a true financial need to drop
the programs or if the schools were merely using the pandemic as a convenient excuse to make moves
they’d wanted to make for a long time. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)