FBI Basketball Probe May Ensnare Dozens of Programs

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The number of schools potentially implicated once the FBI completes its months-long investigation into improper college basketball recruiting practices would be enough to more than fill a second-round NCAA tournament bracket.

According to a report at ESPN.com, as many as three dozen programs could face discipline resulting from the scandal that broke Sept. 29, when the the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York revealed that the FBI had uncovered mass corruption, bribery and wire fraud at some of the nation's elite basketball institutions. The scope of the scandal has broadened since and is believed likely to ensnare programs such as Arizona, Auburn, Louisville, Miami, Oklahoma State and the University of Southern California. "It's not the mid-major programs who were trying to buy players to get to the top," a source told ESPN. "It's the teams that are already there."

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