We didn't know this

A tip of the hat to Chris Murray for posting this. Here's our riff:

UNLV frontcourter Matt Shaw just completed his junior season. The Rebels made it to the Big Dance but that success proved to be Shaw's downfall because he failed a March 18 NCAA-administered drug test (marijuana). The result is Shaw must forfeit next season which is his senior one and, thus, his college playing career is over.Read about this here, here and here.

We knew individual teams administered drug tests but weren't aware of the NCAA also doing so in post-season play.

What's interesting is that individual schools can select their own penalties, if any, for in-season positive drug testers. They can even select who will be tested (maybe more importantly, who won't). We can't recall (even though we aren't affiliated with Goldman Sachs in any way, shape or form), any player having been sentenced to a year in solitary by a coach or a school for this type of during-the-season offense, especially an initial one.

What would happen if a player was arrested and eventually convicted for underage drinking, or public drunkenness, during post-season play? What about some sort of theft or even assault/battery? Our sense is that would be something completely handled by the player's coach and school and not the NCAA.

Plus, what about coaches? Do they also undergo random drug-testing during post-season play?

How about school academic-scholarshipped students?

The curiosity surrounding all this abounds.