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Jul 15, 2006 16:36:01 GMT -5
Post by Willie on Jul 15, 2006 16:36:01 GMT -5
Kentucky Wesleyan receives three years probation
July 14, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
OWENSBORO, Ky. -- Kentucky Wesleyan received three years probation from the NCAA on Friday for using 45 ineligible athletes in eight sports from 1998-2005.
The men's basketball team also will lose one scholarship as part of the sanctions imposed by the NCAA Division II Committee on Infractions. However, the basketball program will not receive any postseason ban.
"A big weight has been lifted," Wayne Foster, chairman of the school's board of trustees, told the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer. "We didn't do anything malicious."
The NCAA's report said the western Kentucky school showed a "lack of institutional control" by allowing transfer athletes to play even though they did not meet NCAA transfer requirements.
The report determined seven other sports at the school -- football, baseball, men's soccer and golf and women's basketball, tennis and volleyball -- also used ineligible students. The 45 athletes committed 69 total infractions during the period under investigation.
Kentucky Wesleyan will have to vacate all contests in which the athletes competed in during their time at the school. Foster said he's not sure if the penalty means the men's basketball team will have to forfeit the NCAA Division II titles it won in 1999 and 2001.
"They did not mention to us any forfeiture of championships, but we don't know," Foster said.
Kentucky Wesleyan's eight men's basketball titles are the most of any Division II school.
In August 2003, the NCAA had ordered Kentucky Wesleyan to forfeit its 2003 national runner-up finish in men's basketball for using two ineligible transfer players.
Ray Harper, who coached the men's basketball program during the period of the investigation, is currently the head coach at Oklahoma City University, which is a member of the NAIA. He left Kentucky Wesleyan following the 2004-05 season. He was not specifically named in the report issued Friday.
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July 14, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
OWENSBORO, Ky. -- Kentucky Wesleyan received three years probation from the NCAA on Friday for using 45 ineligible athletes in eight sports from 1998-2005.
The men's basketball team also will lose one scholarship as part of the sanctions imposed by the NCAA Division II Committee on Infractions. However, the basketball program will not receive any postseason ban.
"A big weight has been lifted," Wayne Foster, chairman of the school's board of trustees, told the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer. "We didn't do anything malicious."
The NCAA's report said the western Kentucky school showed a "lack of institutional control" by allowing transfer athletes to play even though they did not meet NCAA transfer requirements.
The report determined seven other sports at the school -- football, baseball, men's soccer and golf and women's basketball, tennis and volleyball -- also used ineligible students. The 45 athletes committed 69 total infractions during the period under investigation.
Kentucky Wesleyan will have to vacate all contests in which the athletes competed in during their time at the school. Foster said he's not sure if the penalty means the men's basketball team will have to forfeit the NCAA Division II titles it won in 1999 and 2001.
"They did not mention to us any forfeiture of championships, but we don't know," Foster said.
Kentucky Wesleyan's eight men's basketball titles are the most of any Division II school.
In August 2003, the NCAA had ordered Kentucky Wesleyan to forfeit its 2003 national runner-up finish in men's basketball for using two ineligible transfer players.
Ray Harper, who coached the men's basketball program during the period of the investigation, is currently the head coach at Oklahoma City University, which is a member of the NAIA. He left Kentucky Wesleyan following the 2004-05 season. He was not specifically named in the report issued Friday.
AP NEWS
The Associated Press News Service
www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9554833