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National Celebrity Annoying Association

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National Clinical Assessment Authority (NCAS)

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National Coalition of Athletics and Academics

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National College Athletic Association

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

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National Collegiate Athletics Association

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National Command Authority Aircraft - 747

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National Committee Against Alabama

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National Communists Against Athletes

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National Conspiracy Against Alabama

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National Conspiracy Against Athletes

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National Council of Athletic Ayatollahs

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NATO Civil Air Augmentation

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Never Convicted Arrested Athletes

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Newsmax Com Article Archives

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Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority

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Nipple Campaign Across America

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No Cats Allowed at All

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No Chance At Admission

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No Class At All

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No Classes At All

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No Clue About Anything

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No Clue About Athletics

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No Clue At All

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No Clues At All

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No Cojones At All

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No Coupon At All

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No one Can Avoid Arizona

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Nobody Cares About Athletes

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Non Caring Arrogant Aristocrats

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Non Communicative Adult Addicts

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Non-stop Compilation of Annoying Advertisements

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Civil Airlift Agency

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Not Caring About Anything

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Not Caring for All Athletes

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Not Cats Allowed at All

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Not Counting At All

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What does NCAA mean?

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Until 1957, the NCAA was a single division for all schools. That year, the NCAA split into the University Division and the College Division. In August 1973, the current three-division system of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was further divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978, while Division I programs that did not have football teams were known as I-AAA. In 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). In its 2016–17 fiscal year, the NCAA took in $1.06 billion in revenue, over 82% of which was generated by the Division I men's basketball tournament. Controversially, the NCAA formerly capped the benefits that collegiate athletes could receive from their schools. The consensus among economists is these caps for men's basketball and football players benefit the athletes' schools (through rent-seeking) at the expense of the athletes. Economists have subsequently characterized the NCAA as a cartel. On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled that the education-related benefit caps the NCAA imposes on student athletes are in violation of US antitrust law.

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