By Matthew Soderberg | Sports Writer
The NCAA announced Monday that all spring-sport athletes would receive an eligibility waiver and increase in scholarship counts, allowing players who would have aged out to return for another year. The Division I Council declined to give the same aid to winter sports.
The council’s decision comes on the heels of every collegiate season getting canceled due to concerns over COVID-19, including the first year without March Madness since 1938. It will be up to individual schools to decide how they will provide aid to returning athletes and will have to take account how their decisions will impact incoming freshmen.