At closing arguments in the latest challenge to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s limits on compensating athletes in college sports, a high-profile attorney representing the association seemed to be gearing up for an inevitable appeal.

Beth Wilkinson of Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz on multiple occasions during Tuesday’s four-hour hearing told U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken that she disagreed with the judge and that Wilken was mistaken about some underlying facts.