Louisville received the NCAA’s notice of allegations from a scandal involving a former escort on Thursday, and Rick Pitino has been charged with failure to monitor the basketball program.
The program has been charged with four Level 1 violations, but most center around Pitino. He has denied any knowledge of the scandal, which involved former escort Katina Powell, who alleged former director of basketball operations Andre McGee exchanged money with her and other escorts for sex with players and recruits in a dormitory.
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It’s easy to get lost in the salacious nature of those details and draw parallels to other sex scandals at other institutions and make irreversible judgments, but every one of those cases is different.