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.
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