Athletics Administers Self-Imposed Penalties On Men's Basketball

University of the Pacific announced today that it is imposing several penalties on its men's basketball program as it continues a cooperative investigation with the NCAA stemming from allegations of academic misconduct within Athletics.

The self-imposed sanctions are:

Withholding the men's basketball team from post-season competition this season, which will include the West Coast Conference tournament in March.

Reducing the number of basketball scholarships by a total of six for a period of three years. (The NCAA allows 13 athletes on the men's basketball team to be on scholarship in a given year. The number of scholarships will be reduced by an average of two per year for the three-year…