NCAA rethinks policy; `BYU rule' reinstated
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Just weeks after apparently crippling BYU's chances of winning a championship in many sports, the NCAA rethought a ruling that would have allowed Sunday play in national tournaments.
The NCAA Board of Directors in April eliminated the "BYU rule" that banned Sunday play in most postseason tournaments. The move was most damaging to BYU and Campbell University, a Baptist school in North Carolina, because neither institution permits its athletes to participate in competition on Sunday.The latest instructions from the board on Aug. 11 state that the NCAA committee governing the sport must accommodate schools that have policies against competition on any day, not only Sunday, for religious reasons. The committees, however, can consider whether or not such accommodation would disrupt the conduct of a national tournament.
Sports such as volleyball, track and field, tennis, golf and swimming are the ones that would be most affected. Men's basketball is enjoying a long run of success with a Saturday, Monday final four, and football does not have a championship tournament.
