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As expected, the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced Wednesday that Baylor University, newly crowned Division I women’s basketball champion, has been cited for violating recruiting rules. News leaked Monday that the men’s and women’s basketball programs sent about 750 impermissible recruiting text messages and made more than 500 impermissible phone calls to students they were courting. But the men’s coaches were also found to have lied during the investigation and impermissibly used talent scouts at basketball clinics, and the women’s program employed prospects at university camps and made impermissible inducements and contacts with two recruits.
The violations occurred over a four-year span, the NCAA said, and their frequency and longevity led the association to slap Baylor and its men’s basketball coach with serious “failure to monitor” charges. The coach, Scott Drew, has been suspended for next year’s first two conference games and is under telephone call recruiting restrictions, while the women’s coach, Kim Mulkey, may not participate in off-campus recruiting this summer. Assistant coaches face additional penalties. Under sanctions self-imposed by Baylor, men’s basketball will get one fewer scholarship next year and the women’s team will get two fewer. The NCAA placed Baylor on three years’ probation. See the full public infractions report here.
