March 24, 2006
NCAA Punishes Ohio State U. for Improper Payments by 2 Basketball Coaches and a Booster
The NCAA has placed Ohio State University on probation for three years after finding that two former men's basketball coaches made an improper $6,000 payment to a recruit's mother and a booster provided lodging and wrote term papers for another men's basketball player.
As part of its penalty, Ohio State must repay to the NCAA about $800,000 in earnings from the NCAA tournaments in the 1998-99 through 2001-2 academic years.
Ohio State had imposed a one-year postseason ban on its
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