The Public Schools Athletic League's top-tier boys basketball championship game has been canceled, officials said.

In a statement, Schools Chancellor David Banks said Saturday that for the first time in four years, random eligibility audits were conducted.

This led to the discovery that Brooklyn's South Shore Campus boys varsity basketball team had violated age eligibility rules. Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson Campus boys varsity team had violated academic eligibility rules.

"In simple terms — adults put the long-term future of young people second for momentary high school glory on the court. These adults are not helping students. They are only helping themselves," Banks said in a statement.

Sources tell NY1 that one student was too old to play high school basketball. Sources also say an athletic director changed the grades of some players.

"We referred each case to the special commissioner of investigation, and we will not shy away from taking appropriate disciplinary action against any staff who chose to cheat in our athletic contests," Banks said.

Coach Ron Naclerio of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens told Spectrum News NY1 that he could not help but question if other teams that had beaten his squad over the last few seasons had also been cheating.

"It just hurts me to say. Wow, maybe in the past, those miserable nights, those losses that eat me up, that destroy me, were really wins," Naclerio said.