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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Louisville head coach Rick&amp;nbsp;Pitino&amp;nbsp;expressed his frustration with his team\u2019s postseason ban after beating Boston College 79\u201347 on Saturday afternoon.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An emotional Pitino took the podium after a win he called \u201Cemotionally draining,\u201D the day after the school announced its self-imposed punishment effective this season over an NCAA investigation into the team\u2019s recruiting tactics.&amp;nbsp;The NCAA is&amp;nbsp;looking&amp;nbsp;into a woman\u2019s claims she and other women were paid thousands of dollars in exchange for having sex with Louisville players and recruits from 2010\u201314.&amp;nbsp;The allegations come from a book written by Katina Powell, who says former Louisville director of basketball operations Andre McGee paid her and other escorts $10,000 to dance and have sex with players and potential recruits during that four-year period.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pitino said that Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich&amp;nbsp;was the one who called for the team to miss the NCAA and ACC tournaments, and that school president James Ramsey gave the OK. He reiterated that he had no idea what was going on during recruiting visits.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"We should be penalized, no question about it, but not this team,\"&amp;nbsp;Pitino said. \"But the NCAA didn't make that decision. We made that decision.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CSomething should change,\u201D Pitino told reporters. \u201CPeople who are not involved should not be hit.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;DAVIS: It\u2019s time to end postseason bans&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pitino expressed a stance that the team\u2019s punishment should come financially rather than by hurting the players and staff. He said he believes the NCAA\u2019s system is wrong and that the university itself should be punished, and the coach\u2019s pay docked as penance for the violations.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CWe should be hit with a $10\u201315 million fine...that\u2019s it,\u201D&amp;nbsp;Pitino&amp;nbsp;said. \u201CThe way you hurt a university, the way you hurt a coach, is with your wallet.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CMy faith is in Tom&amp;nbsp;Jurich,\u201D he later added. \u201CHe\u2019s a great AD. Did he hurt us? More than [we\u2019ll] ever know, but he is a great leader...Dr. Ramsey is taking a lot of heat right now. He doesn\u2019t need this heat.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The punishment affects the team\u2019s two fifth-year seniors, graduate transfers&amp;nbsp;Damion Lee (the team\u2019s leading scorer) and Trey Lewis, the hardest, ending their hopes of playing in the NCAA Tournament.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Jeremy Woo&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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