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Death penalty (NCAA)
College sports sanction that prevents a school from fielding a team in a given sport
Death penalty (NCAA)
The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. This colloquial term compares it with capital punishment since it is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive, but in fact its effect is only temporary. It has been implemented only five times: The University of Kentucky basketball program for the 1952–53 season. The basketball program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and athletically branded as "Louisiana") for the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons. The Southern Methodist University football program for the 1987 season. The Division II men's soccer program at Morehouse College for the 2004 and 2005 seasons. The Division III men's tennis program at MacMurray College for the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. Besides those that received this so-called "death penalty" from the NCAA, some schools voluntarily dropped...
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