November 3, 2000

NCAA Gives Minnesota 4-Year Probation for Academic Fraud

By WELCH SUGGS

The banners came down last week in the basketball gymnasium at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Gone are the pennants from the 1997 men's Final Four and the 1998 National Invitation Tournament championship.

Both triumphs were expunged by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Committee on Infractions, which last week issued its findings in the academic-fraud scandal that has plagued Minnesota for the past two years.

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