After the Louisville Cardinals placed self-imposed sanctions on their basketball team, Twitter blew up over the news.
March is going to look a lot different in college basketball this year without the Louisville Cardinals and Rick Pitino. On Friday, Louisville announced self-imposed sanctions that will place a one-year postseason ban on the program, which means they won’t be competing for a National Championship this season.
The move comes after an investigation into the program possibly using escort services to land recruits. After a detailed investigation, it’s clear Louisville is taking the necessary moves to work on cleaning the situation up with the one-year ban. While the NCAA will surely make their ruling on the matter, the Cardinals are wasting no time of their own.
After the program announced that they won’t be playing in March Madness, which is a yearly tradition for the storied program, Twitter absolutely blew up over the news that they won’t see the Cardinals and Pitino coaching from the bench in March.
When a team like Louisville announces they aren’t going to be playing in the postseason and something like this happens that could lead to further ramifications, it’s going to be a pretty polarizing subject.
It’s bad news for the players that had nothing to do with it, but it’s going to be hard for the program to get much sympathy in a situation like this from people on Twitter.