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Sunday, December 17, 2000
UNLV wants postseason ban overturned
Associated Press
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LAS VEGAS -- UNLV will appeal one of the penalties handed
out by the NCAA for allowing a booster to give money to Lamar Odom
when he was being recruited by the university.
UNLV athletic director Charles Cavagnaro said the postseason ban
for this year's basketball team will be appealed to the NCAA.
Cavagnaro said the university was not appealing the findings of
the NCAA Committee on Infractions, merely one of the penalties.
In addition to a one-year postseason ban, UNLV was placed on
four years' probation and had two scholarships taken away for two
years.
Cavagnaro said the appeal was being made because Odom never
played for UNLV so the school never got a competitive advantage
from his recruitment in 1996 and 1997.
UNLV fired coach Bill Bayno and replaced him with assistant Max
Good after the NCAA notified the university late Monday that it
would face harsh sanctions stemming from an investigation of the
basketball program.
Bayno claimed he was not to blame for the violations, and said
he might go to court to try and get the university to pay him the
final two years of his contract.
UNLV is 3-4 on the season and plays Saturday night against Cincinnati at home.
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