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Violation (basketball) In basketball, a common violation is the most minor class of illegal action. Most violations are committed by the team with possession of the ball, when a player mishandles the ball or makes an illegal move. The typical penalty for a violation is loss of the ball to the other team. This is one type of turnover.
Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called untrustworthy behaviour or ungentlemanly fraudulent or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship or anti fair-play) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct. Examples include verbal abuse, taunting of an opponent or a game ...
Saginaw Valley State, men (D-II): 69 games (65 regular-season wins and 4 NCAA tournament wins) vacated, covering four seasons from 2014 to 2018. New Mexico State: 64 games (40 regular-season and tournament wins and 24 regular-season and tournament losses) vacated covering 5 seasons 1992–1994 and 1997–1998. See Neil McCarthy scandal.
The University of Michigan basketball scandal, or the Ed Martin scandal, concerned National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) rules violations resulting from the relationship between the University of Michigan (or Michigan), its men's basketball program, and booster Eddie L. "Ed" Martin. The violations principally involved payments ...
In 1949, Daniel Opalka of Massena, New York was arrested for allegedly offering Massena High School football player David Walker $200 to fix the team's upcoming game against Saranac Lake High School. Opalka admitted to having a conversation with Walker about fixing the game, but said he was doing so in jest.
The first major instance of permanent bans being used throughout the NBA revolved around the case of the CCNY point-shaving scandal that primarily happened in 1951. As a result of this incident, 36 different collegiate players (including a few that were either already in the NBA or were drafted into the NBA by this time) and one NBA referee were reported to have been involved with this case at ...
The University of Minnesota basketball scandal involved National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules violations, most notably academic dishonesty, committed by the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. The story broke the day before the 1999 NCAA Tournament, when the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that Minnesota academic ...
The most notable examples were in 1951, when Long Island University (LIU) shut down all of its athletic programs for six years following the involvement of its men's basketball team in a point shaving scandal, and in the 1980s, when two other Division I men's basketball programs shut down after revelations of major NCAA violations – the ...