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NCAA president says UNC academic fraud investigation near end

The NCAA and University of North Carolina's lengthy investigation into academic fraud in the school's athletic department is in its final stages.

NCAA president Mark Emmert told USA Today Sports that while he has not set a deadline for the investigation to conclude, “Sometime in the relatively near future we’ll move toward a resolution."

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The academic violations occurred over almost a 20-year period — from 1993 through 2011 — and involved multiple sports and more than 3,000 student-athletes, including members of the university's perennially successful basketball team.