Basketball Players Wanted More Out of Emmert Meeting

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After getting their meeting with NCAA president Mark Emmert, the college basketball players leading the #NotNCAAProperty movement were left wishing Emmert spoke with more urgency.

Players began using #NotNCAAProperty at the start of the NCAA tournament last month to protest student-athletes’ rights and ask the NCAA to update their name, image and likeness regulations. The athletes used things like the food, workout areas and gift bags they were provided during the postseason to call out the disparity between the money the NCAA and schools make, and the limitations preventing athletes from benefiting from their name, image and likeness. They also used the tournaments to highlight the inequalities between what the men’s teams and women’s teams received.

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