UNLV Success Appeals to Robert Morris

Robert Morris College, encouraged by the recent successful plea by top-ranked Nevada Las Vegas, announced Wednesday that it has appealed its ban from the 1991 Northeast Conference and NCAA basketball tournaments.

The school was placed on two years’ probation and prohibited from appearing on live television and in postseason play during 1990-91 by the NCAA Infractions Committee last May. The school also lost two scholarships.

The NCAA acted after Robert Morris acknowledged that a college trustee had made payments on a bank loan taken out by guard Andre Boyd, who also received meal money while ineligible under NCAA Proposition 48.

Robert Morris originally decided not to appeal the penalties and to return $88,145 in previous NCAA tournament revenues. But recent NCAA decisions on the UNLV, Missouri and Illinois cases have caused school President Edward Nicholson to appeal.