Now that John Lounsbury has given up being a sports agent, he might try his hand at magic. He just helped Connecticut and Massachusetts disappear from the 1996 NCAA tournament record books.
The NCAA on Thursday stripped UConn and UMass of their showings in last year's tournament and demanded both return postseason revenue to settle cases that each are reportedly at least partly linked to Lounsbury.UConn, which reached the regional semifinals in 1996 in the school's last appearance in the NCAA tournament, was ordered to return $90,970 in tournament revenue because two players accepted plane tickets from Lounsbury.
Lounsbury, who became a certified agent in 1994, said he was getting out of the business earlier this year and has filed for bankruptcy protection.