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Louisville men's basketball program forced to vacate 2013 national title after NCAA upholds [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 20, 2018 | Alex Raskin

Posted on 02/20/2018 10:40:38 AM PST by C19fan

The Louisville men's basketball team has been stripped of its 2013 national championship title as well as its 2012 Final Four appearance after the NCAA denied the school's appeal on Tuesday.

The penalties, which were originally announced in June, stemmed from an investigation into allegations that a former Louisville staff member provided strippers to entertain players and recruits during on-campus dormitory parties between 2011 and 2015.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; college
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Turned out to be some expensive hos. UK fans happiest. This might be the first NCAA championship vacated. Several teams, for example 1980 UCLA and Calipari at Memphis, have had Final 4 appearances vacated.
1 posted on 02/20/2018 10:40:38 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I call “racism!”


2 posted on 02/20/2018 10:42:40 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: C19fan

I’ve long believed that Papa John has been paying the football players. No way does that school get that quality of player without payments.


3 posted on 02/20/2018 10:45:55 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: C19fan

It’s the Lance Armstrong effect.

Everybody does it, so you decide to do “it” right, and eventually get penalized for it.


4 posted on 02/20/2018 10:46:18 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: C19fan

It’s past time to vacate the Colorado Buffaloes’ 1990 victory over the Missouri Tigers, and their national championship that year.


5 posted on 02/20/2018 10:49:01 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: C19fan

How is this punishment? They vacated games from four years ago. All they lost were three or four scholarships. Until they start really doing something, the cheating, etc will never end. It changes nothing.


6 posted on 02/20/2018 10:49:55 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: treetopsandroofs

yep, biggest officiating screw up in NCAA history.


7 posted on 02/20/2018 10:50:40 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: C19fan

How about UMASS and Calipari in 1996.


8 posted on 02/20/2018 10:57:52 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

They made the Final 4 but did not win the championship. The Final 4 appearance was vacated.


9 posted on 02/20/2018 11:01:36 AM PST by C19fan
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Pitino was never charged or arrested in connection to the bribery case, which has been investigated by the FBI and Department of Justice, but he allegedly had knowledge and directed payments to potential recruits


Rick Pitino, a Trump hater


10 posted on 02/20/2018 11:04:34 AM PST by conservative98
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“This might be the first NCAA championship vacated.”

On a lesser and self-interested note, my alma mater (the Univ of Minnesota) had it’s 1996-97 Final Four appearance/banner stripped and its 1997-98 NIT Championship stripped. The team lost scholarships too.

IOW, the brown fecal matter really hit the fan. It took our program a long time to recover from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_basketball_scandal


11 posted on 02/20/2018 11:06:56 AM PST by MplsSteve
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If I were UL I would tell the NCAA see you in court. After allowing North Carolina to cheat on in all sports for two decades with no penalties, the NCAA has no credibility. Alabama, Duke, Kentucky, Ohio State and some of the other bigger schools should form a new college association and tell the NCAA where they can go, they are just like the FBI a laughing stock.


12 posted on 02/20/2018 11:08:35 AM PST by sarge83
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To: South Hawthorne

Judging from UK this year, he’s not paying them enough.


13 posted on 02/20/2018 11:08:44 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

...and yet UNC skates.


14 posted on 02/20/2018 11:09:06 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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The competing political parties at my school had on campus "entertainment" during election week.

ML/NJ

15 posted on 02/20/2018 11:09:09 AM PST by ml/nj
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That game was decided by three of the worst officiating mistakes in NCAA history.

It’s good they had it taken away, they certainly didn’t deserve the win.


16 posted on 02/20/2018 11:14:55 AM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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In football, USC had its 2004 championship stripped, but I think you are correct regarding the NCAA basketball championship.
17 posted on 02/20/2018 11:15:45 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: OrangeHoof

So far...


18 posted on 02/20/2018 11:16:09 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: C19fan

I knew I should have kept my bracket from that year.


19 posted on 02/20/2018 11:19:58 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: C19fan

Yes, but some other team was denied the Final Four position.


20 posted on 02/20/2018 11:20:35 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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