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Stephen F. Austin forced to vacate wins, conference titles after lack of institutional control ruling
Stephen F. Austin was hit with NCAA sanctions for failing to meet APR standards in three sports, including football. The Lumberjacks attribute a clerical error to the oversight, which will impacts revenue sports.
UPDATE (May 20): Stephen F. Austin has accepted major Level One penalties from the NCAA – including fines, vacated wins and vacated championships – after lack of institutional control in improperly certifying ineligible athletes for competition from 2013 to 2019.
The NCAA declared 82 student-athletes in nine sports ineligible. As part of the punishments, SFA will vacate wins that involved an ineligible athlete, which include 29 football victories from 2013-19, 117 men’s basketball victories from 2014-19, 112 baseball victories from 2015-19, 31 softball victories from 2018 and adjusted scores in women’s golf, women’s track and field, men’s cross country and men’s track and field.
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