CS San Bernardino Forfeits 29 1993-94 Victories

Cal State San Bernardino’s women’s basketball team must forfeit 29 victories from the 1993-94 season because it played an ineligible player.

San Bernardino was using the ineligible player when it reached the NCAA Division II final. A story in The Times prompted an NCAA investigation.

Since the infraction was nearly two years ago, the penalty has virtually no effect on the school. The ineligible player, coach and athletic director at the time have left the school.

The player, Felice Logan, was ruled ineligible for having played professionally in Spain in 1991, and for violating the NCAA’s “4-2-4” rule, which says a player who enrolls at a four-year college and transfers to a two-year college must sit out a year or earn a degree from the two-year college before transferring back to a four-year program.

Logan enrolled at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 1986, then transferred to Central Arizona College in 1988 but did not earn an associate degree there.

Logan left Cal State San Bernardino in April of 1994. The contract of Coach Luvina Beckley was not renewed after the 1994-95 season, and the athletic director at the time, David Suenram, announced his resignation in May of 1994 and left the school in 1995.

Nancy Simpson, the school’s athletic director now, said that the school had been notified of the ruling Aug. 7.

The NCAA said that the school could have conducted a more thorough investigation so that Logan would not have played in all 32 games that season.

“This is very serious and quite disappointing for our institution and our department,” Simpson said. “We would like to apologize to the institutions that we competed against for the missed opportunities that our actions created for them.”

As a result of the investigation, the school now has an eligibility form that student-athletes must complete to explain any gaps between the student’s graduation from high school and enrollment at Cal State San Bernardino.