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Edit: Ok, after reading a couple additional articles it looks like the multi-team tournaments does not include the NCAA tournament. So that's much better. No Post-season ban.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/NCAA-Sanctions-St-Marys-Basketball-194211071.html
In a statement on its website Friday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association said that Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga failed to monitor its men's basketball program.
The statement said the men's basketball program and a former assistant men's basketball coach acted unethically in his recruitment of international prospects, according to the Division I Committee on Infractions. The case also includes a failure to monitor and a failure to promote an atmosphere for compliance by the head men's basketball coach Randy Bennett as well as impermissible training and coaching sessions, the NCAA reported.
St. Mary's College was not immediately available for a response.
Penalties in the case include:
•Public reprimand and censure.
•Four years probation from March 1, 2013 through February 28, 2017.
•The head coach must serve a five-game suspension during the 2013-14 season.
•The head coach may not recruit off-campus during the 2013-14 academic year.
•A two-year show-cause order for the former assistant coach. The public report contains further details.
•Reduction of men's basketball scholarships from 13 to 11 for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons.
•Elimination of foreign tours by the men's basketball team until the start of the 2017-18 season.
•The men's basketball team may not participate in a multiple-team event until the 2015-16 season.
•The men's basketball team may not receive skill instruction during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons.
The former assistant coach knowingly committed violations during the recruitment of three prospects, the committee found. When warned by the California Interscholastic Federation twice about the activities of the former assistant coach, the college did not proactively investigate the recruiting activities. Additionally, the men's basketball team received impermissible training and coaching sessions from trainers not employed by the school.
According to the committee, the former assistant coach acted unethically when he knowingly committed recruiting violations for three prospects. The majority of the recruiting activity by the former assistant coach centered on an international prospect and included impermissible travel, local transportation and the arrangement of host family accommodations. He also attempted to assist a second international prospect by providing personal financial information as part of the prospect's efforts in obtaining a student visa. The impermissible activity occurred both while the former assistant coach was employed by the college and as an athletics representative after he was no longer employed with the college.
During the recruitment of the international prospect, the head coach failed to monitor the activities of the former assistant coach, the committee found. The head coach was aware of the former assistant coach's previous employment with a professional sports agency and his termination from a two-year college due to improprieties. The head coach was also aware of the former assistant coach's recruiting activity with the international prospect for whom the former assistant coach arranged travel to the United States and lodging with a local family. The committee notes that these were "red flags" and should have alerted the head coach to the need for heightened vigilance with regard to the former assistant coach's recruiting activity. Additionally, the head coach knew that impermissible conditioning and practice sessions were conducted by two individuals not employed by the college, resulting in failure to monitor and promote an atmosphere for compliance
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/NCAA-Sanctions-St-Marys-Basketball-194211071.html
In a statement on its website Friday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association said that Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga failed to monitor its men's basketball program.
The statement said the men's basketball program and a former assistant men's basketball coach acted unethically in his recruitment of international prospects, according to the Division I Committee on Infractions. The case also includes a failure to monitor and a failure to promote an atmosphere for compliance by the head men's basketball coach Randy Bennett as well as impermissible training and coaching sessions, the NCAA reported.
St. Mary's College was not immediately available for a response.
Penalties in the case include:
•Public reprimand and censure.
•Four years probation from March 1, 2013 through February 28, 2017.
•The head coach must serve a five-game suspension during the 2013-14 season.
•The head coach may not recruit off-campus during the 2013-14 academic year.
•A two-year show-cause order for the former assistant coach. The public report contains further details.
•Reduction of men's basketball scholarships from 13 to 11 for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons.
•Elimination of foreign tours by the men's basketball team until the start of the 2017-18 season.
•The men's basketball team may not participate in a multiple-team event until the 2015-16 season.
•The men's basketball team may not receive skill instruction during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons.
The former assistant coach knowingly committed violations during the recruitment of three prospects, the committee found. When warned by the California Interscholastic Federation twice about the activities of the former assistant coach, the college did not proactively investigate the recruiting activities. Additionally, the men's basketball team received impermissible training and coaching sessions from trainers not employed by the school.
According to the committee, the former assistant coach acted unethically when he knowingly committed recruiting violations for three prospects. The majority of the recruiting activity by the former assistant coach centered on an international prospect and included impermissible travel, local transportation and the arrangement of host family accommodations. He also attempted to assist a second international prospect by providing personal financial information as part of the prospect's efforts in obtaining a student visa. The impermissible activity occurred both while the former assistant coach was employed by the college and as an athletics representative after he was no longer employed with the college.
During the recruitment of the international prospect, the head coach failed to monitor the activities of the former assistant coach, the committee found. The head coach was aware of the former assistant coach's previous employment with a professional sports agency and his termination from a two-year college due to improprieties. The head coach was also aware of the former assistant coach's recruiting activity with the international prospect for whom the former assistant coach arranged travel to the United States and lodging with a local family. The committee notes that these were "red flags" and should have alerted the head coach to the need for heightened vigilance with regard to the former assistant coach's recruiting activity. Additionally, the head coach knew that impermissible conditioning and practice sessions were conducted by two individuals not employed by the college, resulting in failure to monitor and promote an atmosphere for compliance
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