The latest spasm of scandal within the perpetually twitchy-sketchy University of Louisville basketball program caused everyone in college hoops to wonder: what will this mean for the Cardinals’ ongoing NCAA investigation? The simple answer: nobody knows for sure, because the case was consigned to the association’s equivalent of the dead letter office, where nothing ever happens.
The Independent Accountability Resolution Process, conceived more than three years ago by the Condoleezza Rice-led commission on college basketball and implemented 21 months ago, has accomplished nothing. It has been referred six cases, the first of which was March 4, 2020, and zero have been resolved.