Louisville is voluntarily withholding its men’s basketball team from this season’s Atlantic Coast Conference and N.C.A.A. tournaments, as the N.C.A.A. investigates a scandal in which a former basketball employee allegedly purchased strippers and prostitutes for some recruits and their fathers from 2010 to 2014.
James R. Ramsey, the university president, announced the decision, which he said he made in consultation with athletic director Tom Jurich, at a news conference Friday afternoon as Coach Rick Pitino, a two-time national championship winner, looked on.
After hearing from N.C.A.A. staff, Ramsey said, he “determined it was reasonable to conclude that violations had occurred in the men’s basketball program in the past.