(ESPN) The NCAA Committee on Infractions on Friday placed Oklahoma State’s men’s basketball program on three years of probation and banned the Cowboys from playing in postseason tournaments next season.
The penalties are the result of a Level I violation involving former associate head coach Lamont Evans, who was sentenced in June 2019 to three months in prison for accepting between $18,150 and $22,000 in bribes to steer players from South Carolina and Oklahoma State to certain agents and financial advisers. Evans was also hit with a 10-year show-cause penalty, meaning teams essentially have to go out of their way to justify using him for anything athletically-related.
OSU also loses scholarships for three seasons.
Oklahoma State was among several schools — Kansas, North Carolina State, Louisville, South Carolina and Southern California — to be publicly accused of bribery and corruption. ESPN analyst Jay Bilas connected the Oklahoma State case to what may develop at KU.
From the start, KU has said it would fight the allegations.
