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The NCAA vacated 101 wins from the Syracuse men's basketball program, but it can keep its Big East, NCAA Tournament banners.

(Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com)

Syracuse, N.Y. — According to the NCAA, the Syracuse men's basketball team didn't win a single game in the 2005-06 season.

But Syracuse can still claim the 2006 Big East Tournament championship.

In its March 2015 report following a lengthy investigation, the NCAA's Committee on Infractions ordered Syracuse to vacate 101 wins. Those games took place in five different seasons.

On Monday, an NCAA official confirmed to Syracuse.com the adjusted win-loss record for Syracuse in each of those five seasons. The 101 vacated wins included every win in both the 2005-06 and 2011-12 seasons.

Those were special seasons for the Orange. Syracuse won the Big East Tournament championship in 2006 and advanced to the NCAA tournament's Elite 8 in 2012.

However, in a bizarre twist, the NCAA's sanctions did not include the removal of any trophies or banners.

That means while Syracuse's official record for the 2005-06 season will go down as 0-7, Syracuse can keep its Big East Tournament trophy and continue to display a Big East Tournament champion banner at the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center.

Syracuse displays banners for all of its NCAA appearances and conference titles at the Melo Center.

The NCAA's somewhat confusing ruling was confirmed by David Worlock, the NCAA's director of media coordination and statistics. Worlock is not part of the NCAA's Infractions or Enforcement offices. As the director of media coordination and statistics, he is working to update records based on the Committee on Infractions' sanctions.

Worlock said the COI's report on Syracuse differed from other investigations into violations at other schools in that it did not require the removal of championship trophies or banners signifying NCAA tournament appearances.

As a result, Syracuse can keep the banner for its 2012 team's appearance in the NCAA tournament, which resulted in a run to the Elite 8, even though the NCAA ordered Syracuse to vacate each of its 34 wins from that season.

Syracuse can also keep its 2005 Big East Tournament trophy and its 2005 NCAA tournament banner despite vacating 15 of its 27 wins for the 2004-05 season.

A Big East Conference official confirmed that the conference's updated media guide continues to list Syracuse as its 2005 and 2006 tournament champion. (Conferences generally don't remove championships from teams that have been under NCAA investigation unless the NCAA directly orders the conference to do so.)

The 2010-11 team went 27-8 and advanced to the third round of the NCAA tournament. The NCAA ruled that Syracuse must vacate seven wins. But the Orange, now 20-8, can still keep its NCAA tournament banner.

SU's adjusted records



2004-05: 12-7 (27-7 previously, 15 vacated wins)

2005-06: 0-12 (23-12 previously, 23 vacated wins)

2006-07: 2-11 (24-11 previously, 22 vacated wins)

2010-11: 20-8 (27-8 previously, 7 vacated wins)

2011-12: 0-3 (34-3 previously, 34 vacated wins)