Memphis basketball is going to be forced to give up all 38 wins in the 2007-2008 season. Apparently there were a couple of NCAA violations. However, the NCAA doesn't plan on releasing their evidence during this investigation until Thursday. The basis of the NCAA investigation was to see if someone took the SAT for a player on the Memphis basketball team. All of this happened under coach John Calipari who has had this history in the past. In 1996, when Calipari was coaching at the University of Massachusetts they also had to give up their final four berth and their wins for the season. That incident happened because Marcus Camby had accepted about $28,000 from two sports agents.
The 2007-2008 season was already disappointing for me, since Memphis lost in the championship game to Kansas in overtime. But now this scandal comes out and makes it even worse. I'm really surprised and upset that Memphis basketball did this. That was a great team and doesn't deserve to be undermined by a scandal of this stature.
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