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The Bulls defeated South Alabama in the Gainesville Regional to advance to play No. 2-ranked Texas.

The Senate Rules Committee will also consider a less stringent version today.

The proposal would make participation in athletics contingent on determining a student’s “biological sex,” a disputed term that refers to the sex assigned at birth.

When female athletes saw the workout room NCAA provided for the basketball tournament bubble - and compared it to the men's - they cried foul. NCAA officials belatedly acknowledge they blew it.

The program lost an estimated $2 million after it called off its game against Clemson on Nov. 21. That number will be higher after its next two games against Virginia and Duke were also nixed.

The bowl game, played at Raymond James Stadium, will now be known as the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl.

Coach Dan Mullen also clarified his statement over the weekend to pack Ben Hill Griffin Stadium with 90,000 fans for the LSU game.

The Big Ten, which includes Michigan and Ohio State, and the Pac-12, which includes Stanford and USC, put off playing college sports this fall as confirmed virus cases in the U.S. rise.

The Ivy League has put all sports on hold until at least January, while Stanford plans to discontinue 11 of its 36 varsity programs after this academic year.

Each school and conference will be free to decide how to safely resume athletic operations, the NCAA Division I Council says.

The shutdown of sporting events due to the coronavirus pandemic has put athletic careers on hold and interrupted the flow of money that makes sports such a big business.

Student athletes normally are ineligible to continue playing after graduation. But with college careers cut short by the coronavirus, the NCAA may allow Division 1 seniors to play next year.