The University of Memphis is refusing to release the NCAA’s response to its appeal of a ruling that vacated the 2007-08 men’s basketball season.
The university on Wednesday denied a request filed by the The Associated Press under Tennessee’s Open Records Act.
Memphis’s legal counsel says they can’t produce the document because they didn’t receive a copy, and instead read a version of it through the NCAA’s Web site.
The university says NCAA rules prohibit the university from printing the document for the media off the association’s Web site.
In a similar public records case, a Florida court ruled last month the NCAA must release documents on Florida State University’s appeal of an academic cheating penalty. The NCAA tried to keep them secret on a read-only, secure Web site.
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