Win or lose, UI wants off NCAA list

URBANA – Whether the University of Illinois wins or loses its appeal to the NCAA, the goal is to be off the list of schools the NCAA has deemed to be using "hostile or abusive" American Indian imagery by Feb. 1.

The UI filed its appeal Friday of the NCAA's policy restricting postseason competition for schools using the imagery. The policy prohibits those schools from hosting postseason competitions and from displaying such imagery at those events. It takes effect Feb. 1, 2006.

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