The Jayhawks will have enough victories vacated from the 2017-18 season to make Kentucky the winningest Division I program, but will not receive a postseason ban.
“This is exactly what we thought the end result would be years ago, and it’s taken such a long period of time to get here,” said Kansas Coach Bill Self, shown in 2022. The University of Kansas men’s basketball program learned Wednesday that it will not be hit with major additional penalties as a years-long process of investigating and adjudicating alleged recruiting violations came to a close.
The Jayhawks will have to take down a banner commemorating their 2018 Final Four appearance, and Coach Bill Self’s program will have 15 wins from the 2017-18 season vacated because of the use of a player later deemed to have been ineligible. As a result of the ruling by the Independent Resolution Panel, to which Kansas’s case was eventually referred following a 2019 notice of allegations from the NCAA, the Kentucky Wildcats are now the all-time winningest Division I program.
in September 2017 with the arrests of 10 men, including several college assistant coaches, a top Adidas executive and others associated with the sports apparel company. At issue for Kansas was the degree to which Adidas representatives should have been also considered representatives of the Jayhawks — or even boosters of the program, as the NCAA posited — when they funneled money to the families of a pair of prospective recruits.
While the process was unspooling at a deliberate pace, Self and his Jayhawks won the 2022 NCAA championship. At the time, there was some speculation that a decision in the case, if reached by the following season,from defending its title. As it turned out, the Jayhawks were able to play out last season, which ended with an upset loss in the second round of the NCAA men’s tournament.
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