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Kansas basketball: 5 potential outcomes for Jayhawks IARP ruling today

By Joshua Schulman

LAWRENCE, KS - DECEMBER 10: Head coach Bill Self of the Kansas Jayhawks celebrates with assistant coach Kurtis Townsend in the final seconds of the game against the Ohio State Buckeyes on December 10, 2011 at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas. The Jayhawks defeated the Buckeyes with a final score of 78-67. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
LAWRENCE, KS - DECEMBER 10: Head coach Bill Self of the Kansas Jayhawks celebrates with assistant coach Kurtis Townsend in the final seconds of the game against the Ohio State Buckeyes on December 10, 2011 at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas. The Jayhawks defeated the Buckeyes with a final score of 78-67. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /
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Potential Outcome No. 1: Vacating wins and Final Four appearance from the 2017-18 season

The grounds behind the five Level I violations issued by the NCAA stem mostly from the 2017-18 season. Former Jayhawk and then-freshman Silvio de Sousa joined the team at the beginning of the second semester, but he was deemed ineligible to play the following year because his mother allegedly took $2,500 during his recruitment process.

Kansas won’t have to vacate every single game from that season. But during the games that de Sousa participated in — he appeared in 20 of the final 23 contests — the IARP might rule that all the games the Jayhawks won during that span will have no actual victor.

In games that de Sousa played in, KU compiled a win-loss record of 15-5. That would effectively crown Kentucky as the current winningest program in college basketball, as Kansas would sit at 2,370 wins in comparison to Kentucky’s 2,377 (Kansas sits at 2,385 as of right now).

The scariest part about this potential outcome is vacating the Final Four that KU reached. De Sousa appeared in all five NCAA Tournament games that year and was a crucial piece off the bench. It is entirely possible that Kansas’ all-time number of Final Four appearances decreases from 16 to 15 today.

I think this is the harshest penalty the IARP would give out. They are disbanding after this case, and all involved parties just want to get this thing over with. However, it would be unfortunate for KU’s bragging rights.

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