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NCAA remains opposed to legalized gambling; some schools want a cut

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The NCAA said Thursday it remains opposed to the idea of legalized sports wagering in the wake of May's historic U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn a decades-old federal ban.

"While we certainly respect the Supreme Court's decision, our position on sports wagering remains," the NCAA said in a statement. "With this new landscape, we must evolve and expand our long-standing efforts to protect both the integrity of competitions and the well-being of student-athletes."

At the same time, schools such as Marshall, West Virginia, and Connecticut are among the Division I universities interested in receiving an "integrity fee" from placed bets, according to ESPN's David Purdum.

"The fee would help us with additional resources for us to do what we need to do to deal with this whole process," Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick told ESPN.

Marshall and the Mountaineers are both located in West Virginia, a state that plans to legalize sports betting. The NCAA said in June it wouldn't join pro leagues such as the NBA in seeking the integrity fee.

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