Louisville basketball avoids major NCAA penalty

Louisville received probation, and former coaches Rick Pitino and Chris Mack were not penalized in a case of allegations of NCAA violations stemming from the pay-to-play scandal that rocked college basketball in 2018.

Louisville could have faced a multiyear ban on postseason play. Instead, the decision of the NCAA's Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP), released Thursday, was to place the program on two y