USC Hit With Probation, Restrictions for Bribery Scandal

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After three-plus years of waiting, the University of Southern California men’s basketball program can begin to move on after hearing the results of an investigation into the role a former assistant coach played in college basketball’s widespread bribery scandal.

The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions announced Thursday that USC has been placed on two years’ probation and handed recruiting restrictions following an investigation into Tony Bland. Without naming Bland, the committee’s release said that a former USC associate head coach “violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when he accepted a $4,100 bribe from a business management company to influence student-athletes.”

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