The ACC basketball tournament is set to begin in Greensboro Tuesday, but one of the conference's newest teams won't be taking the court in the wake of an investigation released Friday.
Syracuse would have been a middle seed in the upcoming tournament based on its record. But last month, the school's chancellor announced a self-imposed ban on post-season play this year, in anticipation of results of an NCAA investigation.
Those results were announced Friday. The investigation found widespread problems including academic, drug and other violations mostly pegged to the men's basketball team.
The NCAA put Syracuse on a five-year probation, suspended Coach Jim Boeheim for 9 ACC games, and vacated more than 100 of the school's victories over the last decade. Investigators found the university was improperly involved in academic work to keep athletes eligible, and also didn't follow the school's own policy on banned substances.
Syracuse disputed the results Friday, saying there was no evidence that Boeheim did not promote an atmosphere of compliance.
This would have only been Syracuse's second ACC tournament after officially joining the league last year. In 2014, Syracuse came in as a second seed but lost their first game of the tournament to N.C. State.
The tournament is scheduled to move away from Greensboro to Washington, D.C. next year then head to a two-year run in Brooklyn. The addition of Syracuse to the conference lineup was seen as a key factor for the tournament move to New York. The NCAA sanctions don't have an impact on those future tournaments.
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