Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A. Aydin Alatan" <alatan at ipl dot rpi dot edu>
To: Basketbol Liste <basket at Bilkent dot EDU dot TR>
Subject: NCAA de sIkI kurallar
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NCAA bans Louisville from postseason
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville's men's basketball
team was banned from
postseason play for one year and placed on
probation for three years today by the
NCAA.
The NCAA, punishing the university for one
infraction involving basketball and eight
involving volleyball, also reduced the number of
scholarships for the men's basketball
and women's volleyball programs.
The Infractions Committee could have imposed
harsher punishments, including
shutting down one or both programs for one year.
The basketball citation was especially serious
because of allegations that the
program's five-year probation may have been
violated. Louisville won the national
championship in 1980 and 1986.
The allegation involved arrangements made by
assistant coach Scooter McCray in
1996 to keep player Nate Johnson's father from
being evicted from a Louisville hotel.
McCray admitted giving his personal credit card to
the Wilson Inn to assure Fred
Johnson wouldn't be evicted. However, McCray said
he never intended to pay the bill
himself.
The NCAA released its findings in April in a
letter of inquiry which labeled the alleged
violations as ''major,'' including a claim of
''lack of institutional control.''
Since the current investigation began, the
university has transferred McCray to an
administrative post and suspended volleyball coach
Leonard Yelin for a month
without pay. An assistant women's volleyball coach
was reprimanded and the
volleyball team's preseason trip to Japan was
canceled.
By The Associated Press
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