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The NCAA just handed down punishments to UConn and Kevin Ollie for violations that took place during his tenure, but, unfortunately for us, it appears the Huskies’ 2014 National Championship is safe.
The Committee on Infractions put UConn on probation for two seasons and gave former head coach Kevin Ollie a three-year show cause order for failing to monitor his staff, not promoting an atmosphere of compliance and allegedly providing false or misleading statements to NCAA investigators. The violations themselves are pretty tame: pickup games exceeding preseason limits, a video coordinator counting as a coach and resulting in more than the allowable number of coaches, and a booster providing extra benefits to student-athletes in the form of offseason training sessions.