NCAA suspends Rick Pitino for 5 games; Louisville will appeal to save 2013 title
The Cardinals will not be banned from future NCAA Tournaments but the 2013 title is in jeopardy
The NCAA Committee on Infractions has ruled that Louisville coach Rick Pitino failed to properly monitor his men's basketball program and suspended the Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer for the first five ACC games of the 2017-18 season.
Louisville will not be banned from future postseasons. So that's a win. But the NCAA announced Thursday that Louisville must vacate all "basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible from December 2010 [to] July 2014." That suggests Louisville's 2013 national championship is in jeopardy, which is something Louisville consultant Chuck Smrt subsequently confirmed. At a press conference, Smrt said that players the NCAA has deemed ineligible did play in the 2013 NCAA Tournament and acknowledged that Louisville's 2013 NCAA Tournament championship will be vacated unless the ruling is overturned on appeal.
No school has ever been forced to vacate a men's basketball championship.
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Count on it: NCAA is taking down Louisville's 2013 title banner; is UNC next?
The governing body never has taken down a banner, and that's why Pitino and Co. are up in arms
They're going to take down a banner.
By God, the NCAA is going to take down a banner.
That's really the only conclusion that can be taken from Thursday's release of the NCAA report on the Louisville basketball program's strippers-and-sex scandal, right?
There were plenty of notable punishments in the report. Coach Rick Pitino is suspended for the first five ACC games of the coming season. Andre McGee, the former director of basketball operations at the vortex of the scandal, received a 10-year show cause penalty from the NCAA, which effectively will end his basketball career. Louisville's basketball program will enter into four years of probation.
But make no mistake about which was the bombshell. All those punishments, plus the NCAA's acceptance of Louisville's prior self-imposed sanctions, would be but a slap on the wrist if it weren't for this paragraph, the sixth of 14 bullet points in the NCAA's release of its punishments:
"A vacation of basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible from December 2010 and July 2014. The university will provide a written report containing the games impacted to the NCAA media coordination and statistics staff within 45 days of the public decision release."
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