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Women's hoops not helped by gender quotas.
All 64 teams in the 2005 NCAA Div. I women's basketball championships existed prior to 1979, when the federal government first introduced proportionality as part of the three-part test. Therefore, not one of these teams benefited from the gender quota.

• Men's Cross country leads the list of most-dropped NCAA programs in the last 15 years losing 183 teams, according to the NCAA's 1982-2002 Sponsorship and Participation Report. Indoor track (180), golf (178), tennis (171), rowing (132), outdoor track (126), swimming (125) and wrestling (121) are other men's teams on the most-dropped list.

• In 1979, there were 107 men's gymnastic teams at NCAA schools; there are now 20 men's college teams.

• In 1985 there were 253 male athletes per NCAA campus. In 2001 there were 199 male athletes per NCAA campus.

• Participants in collegiate intramural sports, which are totally interest-driven, are about 78% male.

• There are nearly 1000 more women's teams than men's teams in the NCAA. This is after a decade of proportionality has caused the loss of thousands of male athletes through forced squad size reductions and the dropping almost 400 men's teams.

• With males projected to be only 41% of college students by 2009 it is clear that proportionality will mean that men will only have half as many NCAA teams as women - and that this will entail the elimination of anywhere from a third to a half of NCAA male athletes.

• Scholarship Limits Mandated by the NCAA - Division 1
Men Women
Basketball 13.0 15
Soccer 9.9 12
Swimming 9.9 14
Tennis 4.5 8
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