It was a season that the Louisville men’s basketball team likely wants to forget, as the school self-imposed a postseason ban amid a recruiting scandal in which a former escort said she had sex with basketball players and recruits in exchange for money. When the team announced the ban, Louisville president James Ramsey declined to comment until the investigation was complete, but said it was “reasonable to conclude that violations had occurred in the men’s basketball program in the past.”

Despite the controversy, Louisville...