NCAA reduces scholarship penalty against Georgia Tech men's basketball program

The NCAA announced Tuesday it was vacating three of Georgia Tech's four scholarship reductions stemming from its 2019 decision to place the Yellow Jackets men's basketball program on four years' probation and ban it from the 2019-20 postseason.

Georgia Tech was originally expected to lose one scholarship for each year of probation, but the NCAA knocked it down to just one scholarship total -- which was completed by the Yellow Jackets during the 2019-20 season.

"On appeal, Georgia Tech argued that in assigning the scholarship reduction penalty, the hearing panel failed to appropriately weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors, ignored relevant case precedent and based the penalty on…