After all the recent scandals in college basketball, mostly tied to the FBI investigation into corruption, the NCAA has finally decided its had enough.
As a result, the organization is dropping the hammer…on UMass tennis…over a $252 telephone jack.
Here are details from ESPN:
Last month, the NCAA decided enough was enough, and it dropped the harshest and most unforgiving punishment on — wait for it — the University of Massachusetts women’s tennis team.
UMass received two years’ probation, self-imposed a $5,000 fine and had the records and matches from two seasons, 2015-16-and 2016-17, expunged because two players received “improper benefits” of $252.
The improper benefit, which UMass self-reported to the NCAA: reimbursement for a phone jack in the players’ off-campus apartment, a phone jack they didn’t even know they had and didn’t use because they have cellphones.
A telephone jack.
In the age of cellphones.
Brittany Collens transferred from New Mexico State in 2014, and the NCAA decision to vacate the wins erases two-thirds of her UMass career. “It’s like I never played there,” she says. College careers wiped out, accomplishments erased, including the Atlantic-10 championship UMass won in 2017 and the season records of the last two years of legendary UMass coach Judy Dixon’s 25-year, 316-win career.
Over a telephone jack.
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