September 7, 2007

NCAA Penalizes Purdue Women

By BRAD WOLVERTON

The NCAA has placed Purdue University on probation for two years after finding that a former assistant women's basketball coach there helped a former player commit academic fraud, and later lied about it to investigators.

Purdue, one of the country's elite programs, will lose two of its 15 scholarships this year. Katrina Merriweather, the former assistant coach, must appear before the NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions if she wants to work in college sports in the next three

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