UConn Basketball Program On Probation, Jim Calhoun To Be Suspended Three Games Next Season

At 3 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, the NCAA plans to hold a teleconference announcing the punishment it will issue to the Connecticut basketball program. UConn has been hit with eight major violations, but USA Today is reporting that head coach Jim Calhoun’s Huskies will not be faced with a postseason ban.

The program imposed penalties on itself, and it’s possible that the NCAA will find some of the penalties sufficient without having to impose any extra punishment itself. Our UConn blog, the appropriately-named UConn Blog, isn’t so sure that the NCAA’s committee of infractions will be satisfied with the school’s lack of scrutiny with regard to Calhoun himself: