The NCAA has awarded the state of North Carolina with men's basketball tournament games in 2020 and 2021, in addition to other championship events, after the state legislature repealed a law placing limitations on the rights of LGBTQ citizens. Prior to repeal, the NCAA relocated championship events in the Tar Heel State for the 2016-17 academic year and was threatening to exclude N.C. from hosting postseason contests through 2022.

Details on the postseason events set to take place in North Carolina, via the Associated Press:

The list of events included men's basketball tournament opening-weekend games in Greensboro in 2020 and Raleigh in 2021, as well as a women's basketball tournament regional in Greensboro in 2019. In addition, the College Cup Division I championship rounds for men's soccer and women's soccer will alternate years in Cary from 2018-21, and the Division I women's field hockey championship will be held in Winston-Salem in 2019.

In addition, first and second round 2018 NCAA Tournament games announced for Charlotte in 2014 will remain in the Queen City.

Two weeks ago, the NCAA announced that it was "reluctantly" lifting its North Carolina ban after concluding that the state's repeal of HB2 met the bare minimum of the organization's inclusivity requirements. Critics of the new law, HB142, argue that it doesn't go far enough in restoring LGBTQ rights. In its statement, the NCAA indicated that it would continue to monitor the situation and work with host sites to ensure that its requirements were met.

Shortly after the NCAA's reversal of course, the ACLU submitted public records requests to the cities of Charlotte, Raleigh, Cary, and Greenville and to 11 public universities in the state to find out what anti-discriminatory protections would be in place for LGBTQ citizens.