The N.C.A.A. on Tuesday upheld penalties against Louisville’s men’s basketball program related to a sex scandal involving players, recruits and prostitutes, and ordered the university to forfeit dozens of victories, including its 2013 national championship.
It is the first time the N.C.A.A. has stripped a program of the championship won in the Division I men’s basketball tournament, the organization’s signature event.
The decision is merely the latest blow for the scandal-battered Louisville basketball program and its former coach, Rick Pitino, who was forced out in September in an unrelated recruiting scandal.
Among other punishments confirmed Tuesday: Louisville must vacate 123 wins — every game it won from the 2011-2 through the 2014-5 seasons — and all of its N.