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University of Kentucky basketball, 1952
The basketball team receive the "Death Penalty" for the 1952-53 season for athletes being payed. -
University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball, 1973
Southwestern Louisiana was found guilty of more than 125 violations in August 1973. Most of them involved small cash payments to players -
Southern Methodist University football, 1986
The SMU case was the first modern "death penalty" - that is, the first one utilized under the "repeat violator" rule. It is the only modern death penalty handed down to a Division I school. -
Kansas basketball, 1988
A player was given cash for plane tickets, clothes, an electric bill for his grandmother, and a no-show job by then-Kansas head coach. The NCAA indicated that it had nearly given Kansas a death penalty. -
MacMurray College tennis, 2004
$126,000 worth of grants for 10 players from foreign countries. Division III schools are not allowed to offer scholarships. -
Texas Southern athletics, 2012
The football and men's basketball programs--including academic fraud, illicit benefits given to student athletes, lying on the part of coaches, and lying to the NCAA about self-imposed sanctions.
