NCAA president Mark Emmert acknowledged Friday that when college sports return, it is "almost inevitable" that some athletes will contract the coronavirus.

In an interview with CNN, Emmert said, "We have literally a half-million student athletes. We've got 1,100 different schools that participate in NCAA sports -- 19,000 teams, not 32 (teams like the NFL). So, to me, it's not if a student comes down with the virus, it's when. I think it's almost inevitable with those kinds of numbers.

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