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Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino listens during an NCAA college basketball news conference Thursday, June 15, 2017 in Louisville, Ky. The NCAA suspended Pitino on Thursday for five ACC games following sex scandal investigation. A former men's basketball staffer is alleged to have hired strippers to entertain players and recruits. (Alton Strupp/The Courier-Journal via AP)

Powell sorry for Louisville fallout, says ordeal ‘worth it’

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FILE - In this March 19, 2017, file photo, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino walks off the court after a 73-69 loss to Michigan in a second-round game in the men's NCAA college basketball tournament in Indianapolis. Louisville and coach Pitino are awaiting discipline from the NCAA on Thursday, June 15, 2017, regarding a sex scandal that engulfed the men's basketball program. A former men's basketball staffer is alleged to have hired strippers to entertain players and recruits. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

NCAA suspends Louisville’s Rick Pitino after escort investigation

By Gary B. Graves - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015, file photo, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino responds to a question following an NCAA college basketball team's intrasquad scrimmage in Louisville, Ky. Escort Katina Powell says she has no proof that Louisville coach Rick Pitino knew that a former Cardinals staffer hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with former recruits and players. But Powell said Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that with “a boatload” of recruits and dancers, “loud music, alcohol, security, cameras” in a campus dormitory and others aware of the shows, “how could he not know?”(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

SNYDER: Rick Pitino’s claims of ignorance crazier than Louisville’s sex parties

By Deron Snyder - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo Louisville coach Rick Pitino, left, talks with guard Andre McGee during the first half of an NCAA college men's basketball game against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. Escort Katina Powell says she has no proof that Louisville coach Rick Pitino knew that a former Cardinals staffer hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with former recruits and players. But Powell said Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that with “a boatload” of recruits and dancers, “loud music, alcohol, security, cameras” in a campus dormitory and others aware of the shows, “how could he not know?”(AP Photo/Joe Raymond, File)

Escort: How could Cardinals’ Pitino not know of sex parties?

By GARY B. GRAVES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2008, file photo, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino talks with guard Andre McGee, right, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Western Kentucky in Nashville, Tenn. Escort Katina Powell says she has no proof that Louisville coach Rick Pitino knew that a former Cardinals staffer hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with former recruits and players. But Powell said Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that with “a boatload” of recruits and dancers, “loud music, alcohol, security, cameras” in a campus dormitory and others aware of the shows, “how could he not know?” (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Escort: How could Cardinals’ Rick Pitino not know of sex parties?

By Gary B. Graves - Associated Press