Ucla Softball Barred

UCLA was ordered to forfeit its 1995 women’s softball NCAA championship and was barred from this year’s national softball tournament - just five days before pairings are announced.

The NCAA committee of infractions also required that a senior associate director of athletics be removed - which UCLA carried out last year. And the NCAA limited UCLA’s scholarships for softball for the next two years.

Scholarship irregularities led to the sanctions.

The NCAA’s Executive Committee is meeting Thursday to consider sanctions against the University of Massachusetts over alleged payments a sports agent made to basketball star Marcus Camby.