KU men’s basketball must give up wins, Final Four banner for bribery and recruiting violations

The decision from the NCAA's Independent Accountability Oversight Committee was six years in the making. The Independent Resolution Panel largely accepted the Jayhawks' self-imposed penalties from last season, when coaches Bill Self and Kurtis Townsend sat out the first four games.
Finally a ruling.

That’s the biggest takeaway from the University of Kansas athletics department after the NCAA-appointed Independent Accountability Resolution Panel placed the Jayhawks men’s basketball program on probation for the next three years.

The panel also ordered KU to vacate 15 wins from its spring 2018 campaign, when the Jayhawks reached the Final Four. KU lost in the semifinal that season to the eventual champion, Villanova. Any visible recognition of that achievement, such as the banner hanging in Allen Fieldhouse, will be taken down.

“It sucked!” said Bill Self about the dark cloud that has hovered over his basketball program the last six years. “But over a course of (about) 35 years (of coaching), don’t you expect to have some periods of time that aren’t that great?”