The San Jose State University Spartans women’s volleyball team, which is at the center of a national debate over the inclusion of transgender women in women’s sports, advanced to its conference championship on Saturday without having played a single game in the tournament.

San Jose State University said it was “disappointed” after Boise State dropped out of the end-of-season women’s volleyball championship rather than play the Spartans, whose team features a biological male.

A women’s volleyball team with a transgender player has reached the championship final without playing a game, as multiple opponents boycotted matches in protest. San Jose State University’s Spartans,