List of vacated and forfeited games in college basketball
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The following is a list of games ordered vacated or forfeited by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in college basketball.[1] The list does not include forfeits imposed by individual conferences.[2]
As a private association, the NCAA only changes its own records to reflect forfeits or vacations that its own Committee on Infractions has ordered, and not for sanctions imposed by individual conferences.[3]
In some cases, NCAA sanctions covered multiple years. The incidents resulting in the largest number of vacated and/or forfeited games are as follows, with all schools involved being Division I and all teams involved being men's teams unless otherwise indicated:
- Northern Colorado: 153 games (151 regular-season, 2 postseason) vacated, covering all results from 2010 to 2015.
- Louisville: 126 games (123 regular-season and tournament wins and 3 tournament losses) vacated, covering four seasons (2011–2015). This includes the Cardinals' 2012 Final Four appearance and 2013 national title, making them the first Division I basketball program of either sex forced to vacate a national title. See 2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal.[4]
- Stephen F. Austin: 117 regular-season and tournament wins from 2014 to 2019 due to an administrative error in certifying eligibility for student-athletes.[5][6]
- Michigan: 117 games (113 regular-season and tournament wins and 4 tournament losses) vacated covering six of eight seasons between 1992 and 1999. See University of Michigan basketball scandal (also ).
- Ohio State, men: 113 games (82 regular-season and tournament wins and 31 regular-season and tournament losses) vacated covering four seasons from 1999 to 2002. See Jim O'Brien and NCAA Violations.
- Southern, women: 109 wins vacated, covering all results from 2009 to 2015.
- Syracuse: 106 regular-season wins from 2004 to 2007 and 2010 to 2012. See Syracuse University athletics scandal.[7]
- Arizona: 70 games (69 regular and tournament season wins and 1 tournament loss) vacated from the 2007–08, 2016–17 and 2017–18 season.[8]
- Saginaw Valley State, men (D-II): 69 games (65 regular-season wins and 4 NCAA tournament wins) vacated, covering four seasons from 2014 to 2018.
- New Mexico State: 64 games (40 regular-season and tournament wins and 24 regular-season and tournament losses) vacated covering 5 seasons 1992–1994 and 1997–1998. See Neil McCarthy scandal.
- Ohio State, women: 55 games (52 wins and 3 losses) vacated from 2016–17 to 2018–19.[9]
- Fresno State: 50 games (49 regular-season wins and 1 tournament loss) vacated covering three seasons from 1999 to 2001. See Tarkanian and the NCAA.
- BYU: 47 games (42 regular-season wins, 3 NIT wins, and 2 NIT losses) vacated, covering the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons.[10]
- St. John's: 47 games (46 regular-season wins and 1 tournament loss) vacated covering four seasons from 2001 to 2004.
- Siena: Vacated 46 wins from 2015 to 2018 seasons.
- Minnesota: 42 games (including 24 regular-season wins forfeited from the 1977 season). See University of Minnesota basketball scandal.[11]
- Memphis: 39 games (38 regular-season and tournament wins and one tournament loss) vacated from the 2008 season. See John Calipari era and Derrick Rose.
- Hawaiʻi: 36 regular-season wins vacated covering the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.[12]
- Thomas More, women (D-III): 33 games—27 regular-season and 6 NCAA tournament wins, including the national championship, from the 2014–15 season.
- Louisiana-Lafayette: 33 games (31 wins and 2 tournament losses) vacated from the 2004 and 2005 seasons. See Major violations.
- FIU: 32 regular-season wins vacated covering four seasons from 2003 to 2006.
- California: 29 games (28 regular-season wins forfeited and 1 regular-season loss) vacated from the 1995 and 1996 season.
- Georgia Southern: Vacated 27 regular-season wins from the 2008 and 2009 seasons.
- Saginaw Valley State, women (D-II): 23 regular-season wins vacated, covering the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons.
- Florida State, men: Vacated 22 games (20 regular-season and 2 NIT wins) from the 2006–07 season.
- Florida State, women: Vacated 20 regular-season and 2 NCAA tournament wins from the 2006–07 and 2007–08 seasons.
- USC: 21 regular-season wins and 1 tournament loss vacated from the 2008 season. See University of Southern California athletics scandal.
- Purdue: 19 regular-season and tournament wins and 1 tournament loss vacated from the 1996 season.
In addition to vacating and forfeiting games, the NCAA has the power to issue other forms of sanctions. The harshest sanction is a ban on a school's competing in a sport for at least one year. Sometimes referred to as the NCAA's death penalty, this sanction has been imposed twice against college basketball programs: (1) the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program for the 1952–53 season; and (2) the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program (then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana) for the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons.