The Biden administration wants to ruin this March Madness Cinderella
Jeremiah Poff
March 25, 2024
Grand Canyon University may have seen its budding Cinderella run in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament cut short by the University of Alabama on Sunday, but the Arizona Christian university is facing far greater odds as it tries to stand up to political persecution from the Biden administration.
GCU won its first March Madness tournament game on Friday when it defeated St. Mary’s 75-66 in an upset before falling to Alabama on Sunday night 72-61 in the second round of the tournament. It was a valiant effort for a school that is relatively new to the NCAA athletics scene, but it also brought attention to the school’s legal battles with the Biden administration.
In October, the Biden administration’s Department of Education announced it was fining GCU $37.7 million, claiming the school “lied to more than 7,500 former and current students about the cost of its doctoral programs over several years.” According to the department, “GCU falsely advertised a lower cost than what 98% of students ended up paying to complete certain doctoral programs.”
The fine came after several other investigations by the Biden administration into the school failed to yield sufficient evidence of any wrongdoing. The school still maintains it did nothing wrong and is appealing the fine.
