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N.C.A.A. Restores Championship Events to North Carolina

The N.C.A.A. on Tuesday included several cities in North Carolina among numerous future sites of its championship events through 2022, in sports from basketball to field hockey and in all three competitive divisions, solidifying the association’s decision this month to return to the state after its government repealed a law many viewed as anti-gay.

The Division I men’s basketball tournament will return to Greensboro, a stalwart for March play, in 2020. This year, early-round games that turned out to feature teams like North Carolina and Duke were moved to Greenville, S.C. Other future host cities in the Tar Heel State include Raleigh (Division I men’s basketball games in 2021), Winston-Salem (Division I field hockey games in 2019) and Cary (the next five Division II baseball championships and the men’s soccer final fours in 2019 and 2021).