1998 – Southeast Christian Church opened a new 9,000-seat worship center on Blankenbaker Parkway in Middletown. The facility has since been joined by five satellite worship centers in the Louisville area.
The Big Four Bridge partially opened as a converted pedestrian walkway from Louisville into Jeffersonville, Indiana, although the complete crossing would not reopen until the Indiana connection was completed in May 2014.
The Louisville Cardinals won their third men's basketball NCAA Championship. The title would later be vacated due to NCAA rules violations (see 2015, 2017, and 2018).
The NCAA announced sanctions against the Louisville men's basketball program stemming from the 2015 sex scandal. The most significant were scholarship restrictions, a six-game suspension for head coach Rick Pitino, a 10-year show-cause penalty for Andre McGee (who by that time had left the program), and the vacating of 123 wins over four seasons, including the 2013 national title. The school appealed the sanctions.
U of L fired both Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich in the wake of an FBI investigation into "pay-for-play" college recruiting schemes that allegedly linked Pitino to illicit payments to the family of at least one U of L recruit.
2018
The NCAA denied Louisville's appeal against the sanctions announced against the men's basketball program in 2017, officially making the Cardinals the first Division I school forced to vacate a men's or women's basketball championship.
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