So your team made it to the final round of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament…but lost in the final game. But then the NCAA ruled that those losses don’t count or are “vacated.” Good news? Not really. Those games are technically stricken from the NCAA record books because the teams were involved in major scandals.

• The Villanova Wildcats made it to its first ever title game in 1971, played in front of a then-record 31,765 fans at the Houston Astrodome. But after losing to UCLA 68-62 (for that school’s fifth straight championship), Villanova was disqualified. College basketball is strictly amateur, and it was discovered that Villanova’s Howard Porter had signed with a sports agent before the tournament. Similarly, third-place finisher Western Kentucky was also disqualified because player Jim McDaniels had already signed a pro contract and even been paid.

• The next time a tournament finish was vacated involved UCLA, who lost to Louisville by five points in the 1980 title game, just missing its 11th national championship. It would’ve been deleted anyway: After a team booster named Sam Gilbert came under federal investigation for laundering drug money, the Los Angeles Times discovered that he’d also paid a handful of recruits to play for UCLA.

• The 1992 title game was a blowout: Duke over Michigan, 71 to 51. Michigan returned to the championship round in 1993, but again lost, this time to North Carolina, 77 to 71. Both of those losses were vacated when a six-year federal investigation revealed multiple recruiting and financial rules violations by the Michigan basketball program. Four Michigan players (including future NBA star Chris Webber) were found to have received loans totaling more than $600,000 from booster Ed Martin…who was using the loans to launder money from an illegal gambling ring.

• The 2008 tournament made history in two ways. 1) It was the first time that the Final Four was made up entirely of the no. 1 seeds from all four regions. 2) Derrick Rose, star player for runner-up Memphis (who lost to Kansas, 75 to 68) was discovered post-tournament to have gotten into college due to some grade alteration by his high school, along with evidence that another student may have taken his SATs for him.