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Minnesota hoops gets four years’ probation By John Akers The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The NCAA has put the University of Minneso ta men’s basketball program on probation for four years and cut an additional scholarship as penalties for academic fraud in the program, according to published reports, which were confirmed by a school official who requested anonymity. The Gophers will not be banned from another year of postseason play, the reports said. In what ap pears to be a victory for the univer sity, the NCAA infractions com mittee imposed little more punishment than what already had been self-imposed by the school, the Star Tribune and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press reported Monday night. The school official confirmed the substance of the newspapers’ reports to The Associated Press on Monday night. The NCAA commended Min nesota for its investigation and comprehensive self-punishment, which included an offer to repay 90 percent of its money for playing in the 1994, 1995 and 1997 NCAA basketball tournaments, according to the reports. But the NCAA ordered that team records from the NCAA tourna ment and National Invitation Tour nament — and the tournament records of players engaged in aca demic fraud from the 1993-94 sea son through 1998-99 — be vacated. That includes the Final Four sea son of 1997, the Star Tribune re ported. Former coach Clem Haskins’ record will also be stripped of those tournament victories and any mention of the Final Four ap pearance, the only one in school history. “I think honestly it was better than we expected in some respects ... the report itself indicates it was the university’s strong response and the university’s thorough in vestigation that led to the decision not to impose further postseason play sanctions,” the school official said. The NCAA Infractions Commit tee’s report found that Jan Gangel hoff, a former office manager in the university’s academic counseling unit, completed coursework for at least 18 basketball players — and that former academic adviser Alonzo Newby arranged the work with Haskins’ knowledge, the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press both re ported. “The violations were significant, widespread and intentional,” the NCAA ruled, according to the Star Tribune. “More than that, their na ture — academic fraud — under mined the bedrock foundation of a university and the operation of its intercollegiate athletics program.” “It’s never good news to have the NCAA say this is one of the worst academic fraud scandals in 20 years,” the school official said. “The good news is they took into account the good measures the university has already taken.” Mark Rotenberg, the university’s general counsel, declined Monday night to respond to the NCAA’s as sertions, which were to be formal ly received by the school Tuesday. The scandal broke in March 1999 when Gangelhoff came for ward to say she had written more than 400 papers for as many as 20 basketball players between 1993 and 1998. Minnesota officials highlighted the self-sanctions in April at a hearing before the NCAA Infrac tions Committee, and pointed out that ties had been severed to most of the people most closely linked to the scandal. That included Haskins, who accepted a $1.5 mil lion buyout about five months af ter the story broke. The NCAA committee has weighed those facts against what has been called one of the most se rious cases of academic fraud in re cent history. Other high-profile penalties handed down in the past 10 or 15 years — such as sanctions against UNLV, Kansas and Kentucky — dealt mostly with recruiting viola tions. The Minnesota case is rare for the scope of the on-campus fraud. Second-year coach Dan Monson has compared waiting for the NCAA decision to being like a child waiting for the spanldng he’ll get when his father gets home. But the scandal has been more than frustrating for Monson and other Minnesota officials. It has hurt recruiting. Center Rick Rickert of Duluth, Minnesota’s top high-school prospect and one of the nation’s top recruits, has delayed announcing his college choice until Wednes day. He is considering Minnesota and Arizona, but said it probably would take a favorable decision by the infractions committee to swa) him toward the Gophers. “I think [the decision] will play somewhat of a part, but I think he’s still leaning toward Arizona,” said Rickert’s mother, Susan. “If there’s more to [the sanctions], it’s for sure he won’t go [to Minnesota]. Thai just wouldn’t be right for him. Bu1 if there isn’t, maybe he’ll go. We keep talking about it, but it gets old after a while.” The scandal prompted a nine month, $2.2 million investigation by the university. Federal prosecu tors are still looking into the case. Minnesota and the NCAA allege that Newby steered players to Gan gelhoff and that Haskins rewarded her. Investigators also say thal Newby helped get grades or class es changed to keep several players eligible and that Haskins told play ers to lie after the story broke. Haskins admitted — after sever al denials — that he paid Gangel hoff $3,000 to tutor a student aftei she was ordered to stay away from the team. Minnesota is suing to re trieve the $1.5 million buyout giv en Haskins, claiming he broke school and NCAA rules and violat ed his contract when he admitted paying Gangelhoff. Call (541) 346 4343 or stop by Room 300 Erb Memorial Union to place your ad today. P.O. 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