NCAA Penalizes Minnesota Basketball Team

The National Collegiate Athletic Assn. placed the University of Minnesota men’s basketball program on probation for three years Monday and barred the team from postseason competition for two years and limited its off-campus recruiting to two coaches.

But because the university cooperated in the 18-month investigation that uncovered 19 “significant” and 21 “additional” violations, the NCAA suspended a year of probation and a year of the postseason competition ban.

Allegations against the basketball program included the sale of game tickets for cash by players, loans for an airline flight for a player that was not repaid for more than an year, and excessive spending during recruiting.

The football program also was reprimanded for two alleged violations involving airline flights associated with former Gopher quarterback Rickey Foggie.