RALEIGH, N.C. — The NCAA’s academic case against North Carolina now has an added step likely to delay resolution a little longer: a procedural hearing.

The school is scheduled to appear before an NCAA infractions committee panel Oct. 28 in the case tied to its long-running academic fraud scandal. But the hearing will focus on UNC’s procedural arguments in its response to five serious charges instead of whether violations occurred on the Chapel Hill campus. The school released a letter Friday from the NCAA setting the date for Indianapolis. UNC faces five potentially top-level charges, including lack of institutional control, in a case that grew as an offshoot of a 2010 inquiry into the football program.