The NCAA has suspended Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim for nine games due to several violations.

According to Business Insider, the coach and his team "will have to forfeit all of the games they won," a total of 108 wins, from the 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons. Aside from this, the football and basketball team of Syracuse have also been placed on probation for five years with the basketball team asked to give up their three scholarships a year for the next four years.

Despite these strict penalties, both teams were not banned from any postseason game beyond their self-imposed ban for the current season.

Explaining the self-imposed ban, Business Insider said the university already decided on the matter last February "in an attempt to be proactive in response to the NCAA's investigation." The coach said the school was trying to take into consideration the mistakes done in the past.

The NCAA explained in a report that Boeheim's violations included failing to follow the school's drug-testing policy. Business Insider added that players who tested positive were not taken out from practices and even games.

A similar ESPN report said that the NCAA also commented on how the school controlled and monitored its athletic programs.

"Over the course of a decade, Syracuse University did not control and monitor its athletics programs and its head men's basketball coach failed to monitor his program," the NCAA was quoted in a statement.

It added that the violations also included "academic misconduct, extra benefits, failure to follow the drug-testing policy and impermissible booster activity."

In addition to this, the school also committed impermissible academic assistance and services with Boeheim failing to promote and atmosphere of compliance where he can monitor his staff and have control on the athletics program of the university.

"Initially, I would like to express relief that the NCAA's unparalleled 8-year investigation of the University and the Men's Basketball Program is finally over. As I expressed at the Committee on Infractions Hearing, I acknowledge that violations occurred within the Men's Basketball Program, and as the Head Coach of the Program, I take those violations very seriously," Boeheim said in a statement quoted by ESPN.

He also expressed disappointment in the findings and conclusions of the NCAA report saying that "the committee chose to ignore the efforts which I have undertaken over the past 37 years to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the Men's Basketball Program."

Boeheim added that the investigating body focused more on the "rogue and secretive actions of a former employee of the local YMCA and my former Director of Basketball Operations" so that they can impose penalties on the basketball program of the school.