The NCAA has withdrawn all championship events from North Carolina for the 2016-17 academic year because the state has passed several laws targeting the LGBT community, the organization announced Monday. The decision will affect seven NCAA championship events, including the first and second rounds of the Division I men’s basketball tournament and the women’s soccer College Cup. “It seems that almost every day, we learn of a new consequence of HB 2,” a spokesman for North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a statement. Losing the NCAA men’s basketball tournament games, which Greensboro was supposed to host in 2017, will particularly sting for many residents of North Carolina. “North Carolina is ground zero for NCAA college basketball.

Source: Huffington Post September 13, 2016 01:07 UTC