NCAA Bans SMU From 2016 Postseason, Larry Brown — College Basketball News

“An institution’s head coach shall promote an atmosphere of compliance within his or her program and shall monitor the activities of all institutional staff members involved with the program who report, directly or indirectly, to the coach”.

SMU has not yet decided whether it will appeal the NCAA’s ruling, it said in the statement, while offering a condemnation of the governing body’s postseason ban.

Maligi, who left SMU last season, was not cited for any violations by the NCAA. Kansas was banned from postseason play the following season and placed on probation for three years due to recruiting violations. Still, there was a violation in our program and I take responsibility for that and offer my honest apologies to the University community.

Brown vehemently denied lying to NCAA investigators, a violation also included in the investigator’s report. He won it all with Kansas in 1988, but faced a postseason ban from the NCAA the very next season. “And he was not initially truthful during an interview with the NCAA enforcement staff”. The ESPN report does not note if SMU will vacate any wins that Frazier participated in.

Brown, a Hall of Famer has coached New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons, Spurs, Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Bobcats and Los Angeles Clippers.

SMU appealed the ruling, but was shot down by the NCAA. This is Brown’s third time being punished by the NCAA.

“The committee’s responsibility is to look at this institution and to look at what may or may not have been done improperly in this case”, Adams said.

I’m not going to bore you guys with the details of the case.

SMU athletics, meanwhile, is most known for its NCAA troubles too, as the football team was destroyed by the NCAA’s death penalty in 1986.

The 75-year-old Brown was charged with “lack of coach control” after former Mustangs assistant Ulric Maligi was found to have helped former point guard Keith Frazier with coursework. Brown did not report this information to his compliance staff, his athletic director, his school president, his conference office or the NCAA. He later explained why.

“I’m really disappointed in what happened to our kids”, Brown said at Tuesday afternoon press conference. That’s all he said to me. Both teams will also have the number of scholarships it is allowed to give out reduced.

Though the NCAA said that Brown had “no direct knowledge” of the assistant coach completing the player’s homework, it said he failed to handle the situation appropriately.