All right, this is Gary Parrish again from cdsports.com.

It is Friday.

It is March 6th and this is the Ion College basketball podcast.

I'm joined, of course, as I am usually on Fridays by Matt Norlander and Sam Vecinia.

We have decided not to record this until the afternoon.

It is now the afternoon, a little after 3pm, Easter, because of the Syracuse sanctions

that were announced today by the NCAA.

Seemed pointless to get up early this morning.

Basically, just seemed pointless to get up early this morning, but it seemed pointless

to get up early this morning and do a college basketball podcast, given that the big story

in college basketball would be Syracuse and that wasn't announced to the afternoon.

It has been announced, Matt Norlander, you handled the news side of the situation.

So for folks who might be somewhat unfamiliar, why don't you detail us what Syracuse is facing?

Sure, and I got to say I love that we've got to devote most of this podcast to this kind

of stuff in early March, but that's the news and here we go.

So the NCAA hits Syracuse.

The big headlines, in my opinion, are Bayheim has to sit for nine ACC games next season.

That's not the first nine games in that usual cupcake Syracuse schedule.

It will be nine lead games.

They do not have a further postseason punishment will only be this year.

They will be in five years probation.

In my opinion, an underrated punishment in this regard is they can only have two coaches

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