This Saturday, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Louisville men's basketball team that ended up winning the NCAA championship for Vacated University, there will be a reunion of players and the raising of a banner celebrating their achievement.
The main question is, what is the banner going to say?

Part of the punishment the NCAA handed down was, "Any public reference to these vacated contests shall be removed from athletics department stationery, banners displayed in public areas and any other forum in which they may appear." This is why
Louisville had to take down its 2013 championship and 2012 Final Four banners. There is pretty much zero chance the NCAA has softened on this stance.

There are some reports that seem to agree on what it will say, and they say that the NCAA has greenlighted this (in fact, some reports even suggest that the NCAA may have suggested the idea): "Final Coaches Poll #1." (They can't include the AP as,
apparently, the AP did not release a post-tournament ranking, and Gonzaga was its last #1 team that season.)

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Giant middle finger?

Mike

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On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 9:18:06 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

This Saturday, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Louisville men's basketball team that ended up winning the NCAA championship for Vacated University, there will be a reunion of players and the raising of a banner celebrating their

achievement. The main question is, what is the banner going to say?

Part of the punishment the NCAA handed down was, "Any public reference to these vacated contests shall be removed from athletics department stationery, banners displayed in public areas and any other forum in which they may appear." This is why

Louisville had to take down its 2013 championship and 2012 Final Four banners. There is pretty much zero chance the NCAA has softened on this stance.

There are some reports that seem to agree on what it will say, and they say that the NCAA has greenlighted this (in fact, some reports even suggest that the NCAA may have suggested the idea): "Final Coaches Poll #1." (They can't include the AP as,

apparently, the AP did not release a post-tournament ranking, and Gonzaga was its last #1 team that season.)

They could raise one that said #1 based on 20 AP voters. Final pre-tournament poll had 45 #1 votes for Gonzaga and 20 #1 votes for Louisville. No other team had any #1 votes.

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Giant middle finger?

Pretty much a combination of that, and the NCAA's "as long as you don't say NCAA, and since it's a sport where we conduct a national championship, don't say 'national champions' either, we don't mind what it says" policy - the one that lets UCF have that
"2017 National Champions" signage below the press box in its football stadium and allowed Auburn to give out rings that said "National Champions" to its 2004 football team (I'm pretty sure those were either SEC Championship or Sugar Bowl appearance rings
given out by the team with "national champions" carved on them - since it's FBS football, where there is no NCAA champion, the NCAA doesn't really care, just as long as they aren't in addition to any other rings the school is allowed to give unless the
team finished #1 in either the coaches or AP polls).

Speaking of rings, I expect at least one of the 2013 players there to show off their NCAA championship rings, which they were allowed to keep - the players who were not ineligible were allowed to keep them by the NCAA without risk of losing eligibility (
well, that, and by the time the NCAA stripped the team of its national championship, they had all used up their eligibility anyway), and the others had already lost their eligibility, so the NCAA couldn't punish them any further if they did not give them
back.

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On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 8:18:06 PM UTC-6, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

This Saturday, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Louisville men's basketball team that ended up winning the NCAA championship for Vacated University, there will be a reunion of players and the raising of a banner celebrating their

achievement. The main question is, what is the banner going to say?


who really cares?

Louisville won the title in 2013. Everyone knows it; most remember it(to the extent anyone remembers a 10 year old college basketball
game these days). I remember that one guard they had kept getting in the lane and giving michigan fits.....

it happened; louisville won. Past that nobody cares......

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On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 6:07:46 PM UTC-8, michael anderson wrote:

On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 8:18:06 PM UTC-6, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

This Saturday, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Louisville men's basketball team that ended up winning the NCAA championship for Vacated University, there will be a reunion of players and the raising of a banner celebrating their

achievement. The main question is, what is the banner going to say?

who really cares?

Louisville won the title in 2013. Everyone knows it; most remember it(to the extent anyone remembers a 10 year old college basketball
game these days). I remember that one guard they had kept getting in the lane and giving michigan fits.....

it happened; louisville won. Past that nobody cares......

No. Nobody won. And that's what needs to be enforced here.

Mike

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