LOUDONVILLE — An NCAA investigation found the Siena College's men's basketball team provided impermissible benefits — including payments to players — during the tenure of former coach Jimmy Patsos, the college announced Monday.

Siena will vacate its wins from the 2015-16 through 2017-18 seasons, pay a $5,000 fine, serve three years probation and disassociate with an unnamed booster through March 2023.

The team does not forfeit its chance to play in this year's NCAA basketball tournament.

“There’s no postseason ban,’’ Siena athletic director John D’Argenio said Monday afternoon. “There’s nothing like that. In fact, any penalties we had were the minimum that could have been given out for this type of infraction.”

D’Argenio said the probation involves reporting to the NCAA on corrective action the school is taking.

“We’ll continue to educate, re-educate, more monitoring, better connection between coaches, administrative staff and athletic department and in other parts on campus to make sure everything is followed and all of the Is are dotted, Ts are crossed,’’ D’Argenio said.

Patsos gets a three-year show-cause order if he wants to coach again. During that period, any NCAA member school employing Patsos must restrict him from any athletically related duties unless it shows cause why the restrictions should not apply. The school must also suspend him from the first 30 percent of games in the first season of his employment.

The report said the head coach "violated ethical conduct legislation" when he knowingly provided false or misleading information during an interview with the NCAA enforcement staff.

Patsos did not respond to a phone message and text seeking comment.

Siena said the team's coach made payments to players after victories during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-18 seasons. Though the statement does not name the coach, the alleged violations occurred during years when Patsos led the team.

The NCAA report said the payments were made at least twice each academic year in the general ranges of $60 to $80 and $100 or more, described as “ice cream money” within the program,

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The players later donated the money to charities, Siena says. The current players left from those seasons are junior guard/forward Manny Camper, senior forward Sammy Friday and walk-on senior guard Ben Diamond of Shaker High.

All the players from that time will likely have to vacate their career statistics, such as points and rebounds, according to D’Argenio.

Basketball staff provided players with forbidden rides at the coach's recommendation and in one instance, Patsos allegedly provided a player with a small amount of cash during a meeting in the weight room that took place during the 2017-2018 season.

The Times Union disclosed some of the allegations during reporting on the team in April 2018. Patsos later resigned following an 8-24 season and has worked as a TV basketball analyst.

D'Argenio said Siena didn't know the report was coming until the NCAA notified the school on Friday.

"It was really short notice,'' he said.

The news arrived as Siena is preparing for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament that begins Tuesday in Atlantic City, N.J. The Saints are the MAAC regular-season champions and No. 1 seed for the first time since 2010 and will play in a quarterfinal against Fairfield or Manhattan at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

“It is what it is,’’ first-year head coach Carmen Maciariello said. “I wasn’t here at the helm. I know our compliance and athletic director have done the necessary steps to rectify those problems.”

Asked if the timing of the report takes any of the luster from the team’s accomplishment’s, Macariello responded, “Nope. That was how many years ago? Not worried about it.”

Similarly, D’Argenio said he saw the report not as a black eye on the program, but as closure. Siena says it cooperated fully with the NCAA investigation and reported the conduct after the violations were brought to light.

“Actually, I think it helps us,” D’Argenio said. “It puts everything to bed. It puts it behind us. We understand what we did wrong, we understand what coaches at the time did wrong, took the corrective action and now it’s done. It’s over with.”

Siena was accused of three other violations of NCAA rules.

The college says the former director of basketball operations provided forbidden coaching and instruction. The third violation accused Patsos of allegedly failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance with NCAA rules. Finally, the investigation found the program did not stop a team booster from interfering in the investigation.

Patsos was also accused of engaging in unethical conduct, but Siena said that incident took place after he left the team.