Written by Jeff Greer at Courier-Journal.com
The NCAA suspended coach Rick Pitino on Thursday for five Atlantic Coast Conference games for this upcoming season, part of a series of sanctions stemming from the Louisville basketball infractions case.
The NCAA also hit Louisville with what it described as “a vacation of basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible” from December 2010 to July 2014.
“The university will provide a written report containing the games impacted (by the vacation of records),” the NCAA’s release said, “to the NCAA media coordination and statistics staff within 45 days of the public decision release.”
U of L’s sports information director Kenny Klein did not immediately respond to a call seeking clarification on the vacation of records and whether the ruling would take away the Cards’ 2013 national championship or their 2012 Final Four appearance.
U of L also received a $5,000 fine and must return money received from conference revenue sharing from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournament appearances.
“The panel also accepted the university’s self-imposed 2015-16 postseason ban,” the release said.
The five ACC games Pitino will miss are: home versus Virginia; at Notre Dame; at Georgia Tech; home versus Pittsburgh; and home versus Duke.
A teleconference featuring Carol Cartwright, the president emeritus of Bowling Green and Kent State and chief hearing officer for the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions panel for U of L’s case, is set for noon.
U of L announced its own 12:30 p.m. press conference with interim president Greg Postel, athletics director Tom Jurich and head basketball coach Rick Pitino.
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