While colleges will certainly have to adjust how they go about identifying and admitting a racially diverse class should the Supreme Court, as widely expected, make race-conscious college admissions illegal, it is doubtful that niche sports recruitment will be axed as a result.

The media covered these hearings extensively, and some of our readers have written to ask what the long-term implications would be if the Supreme Court finds in favor of the plaintiff, SFFA. First, we need to understand what the major issues are that the Supreme Court has been asked to decide.