Kyle Kuzma Calls Out NCAA for Stripping Louisville of Its 2013 National Title

Kyle Kuzma called out the NCAA after Louisville's appeal to retain their 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball championship was denied.

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The NCAA can't erase your memories, tattoos, or the time you may have spent watching Louisville win the 2013 college basketball championship. But it can officially strip said title from the record books. That's exactly what the organization did on Tuesday after rejecting Louisville's 68-page appeal to not vacate their title in the wake of an escort scandal that ran from 2011-15. With the final ruling, the men's basketball program was given the unfortunate distinction of being the first D1 men's hoops champs to have their title stripped.

NCAA announces Louisville’s 2013 national title banner is coming down.

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) February 20, 2018

Though Kyle Kuzma didn't go to Louisville in college—he was a Utah Ute—the rookie forward called out the NCAA by writing a response to the above tweet where he questioned where exactly they get off:

Someone take down the ncaa for generating billions of dollars to only to pay its student athletes a cost of attendance of a $900 dollars a month. https://t.co/tWtPo9sJGY

— kuz (@kylekuzma) February 21, 2018

This isn't the first time someone has raised this argument. But it does show that there's discontent amongst some of the athletes who prop up the organization, which has been quite evident for some time.

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