NCAA Suspends Jim Boeheim for first 9 ACC games in 2015-2016 Season

Along with the suspension, they have also revoked Syracuse of 3 scholarships for the next 4 consecutive seasons.

Why? Well, if you haven't been following, let me tell you...

From the NCAA Report:

[The director of basketball operations] collected and maintained student-athletes' usernames and passwords and provided them to others, including student-athlete support services. The director of basketball operations and members of student-athlete support services commonly accessed student-athletes' network and email accounts in an effort to monitor student-athletes' academic progress. In his interview, the director of student-athlete support services indicated that he believed this practice predated his tenure as director, which started in 2009.

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[T]he director of basketball operations and student-athlete support services employees accessed and sent emails from student-athletes' accounts and corresponded directly with professors. Numerous emails included attached academic coursework, which was necessary to maintain the required grades for student-athletes to remain eligible. Recipients of the emails included student-athletes and the director of basketball operations. There is no indication that the director of basketball operations questioned or reported concerns. To the contrary, the email and related data suggest the common practice of the director of basketball operations monitoring, identifying and then remedying academic concerns through email correspondence, which purportedly was being sent directly by the student-athletes to their professors.

Oh doesn't this just smell like something UNC would do?

So what was the punishment for having the Director of Basketball Operations handling a database of basketball player's student information and handling all correspondence with professors, in efforts to amend grades to keep athletes eligible? Well, now we know:

• Five years of probation from March 6, 2015 through March 5, 2020.
• Vacation of all wins in which ineligible men's basketball students played in 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2010-11 and 2011-12 and ineligible football students played in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07. The public decision contains additional details.
• Fine of $500 per contest played by ineligible students.
• The school must return to the NCAA all funds it has received to date through the former Big East Conference revenue sharing for its appearances in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
• Suspension of the head basketball coach from the first nine conference games of 2015-16.
• Reduction of men's basketball scholarships by three for the 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years. If the school has already executed scholarship offers for the 2015-16 year, the school may begin the four-year penalty with the 2016-17 year.
• Reduction in the number of permissible off-campus recruiters from four to two during June 1, 2015 through May 31, 2017.
• The panel also accepted the school's self-imposed postseason ban for the 2014-15 season, but noted that self-imposition of penalties after the conclusion of infractions hearings does not influence the outcome.

But of course, when it comes to outright academic fraud in an effort to change grades and give out grades for classes that didn't exist to keep athletes eligible, the NCAA found there were no grounds to act.