of the Louisville Cardinals against the Florida State Seminoles at KFC YUM! Center on January 20, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville is scheduled to hold a press conference at 1:30 PM to announce “an important message to the Louisville community”, but the important announcement has already been leaked, and it’s not good news for Cardinals fans.

The Courier-Journal has reported that Louisville will self-impose a postseason ban for this season. Coaches told the players today that they only had nine games left together, which would be the remainder of the regular season.

This is a crushing blow for the Cardinals, who just beat the #2 ranked team in the country, North Carolina, on Tuesday and currently owns an 18-4 record, second in the ACC. The ban comes down as the NCAA is continuing to investigate allegations that women and other escorts were paid thousands of dollars and given tickets to games in exchange for sex with current players and prospective recruits from 2010 to 2014.

The team is currently built around grad transfers Damion Lee and Trey Lewis, who both came to Louisville to pursue their first and only NCAA Tournament appearances. This will be the second straight season that an ACC team has self-imposed a postseason ban, as Syracuse did the same last year in the face of recruiting allegations which also saw coach Jim Boehim suspended.

Louisville is now the second major team this season to self-impose a postseason ban, as SMU did the same earlier on this season.

[Louisville Courier-Journal]

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