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Last Updated: February 14, 2024, 00:30 IST
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A former basketball coach at Sewanee violated NCAA guidelines by putting greater than $93,000 in bets on school {and professional} sports activities whereas serving as an assistant for the lads’s crew and head coach for the ladies’s crew, the affiliation introduced Tuesday whereas handing down sanctions.
INDIANAPOLIS: A former basketball coach at Sewanee violated NCAA guidelines by putting greater than $93,000 in bets on school {and professional} sports activities whereas serving as an assistant for the lads’s crew and head coach for the ladies’s crew, the affiliation introduced Tuesday whereas handing down sanctions.
The Division III college, also called the University of the South, and NCAA enforcement employees agreed that over a 26-month interval the coach knowingly broke guidelines that ban athletic division workers from wagering on the game by which they take part.
The coach, who was not recognized within the NCAA’s report, positioned 407 bets on school sports activities totaling $28,000, together with 20 wagers on girls’s school basketball video games, the report mentioned. None of these video games included his personal crew.
In probably the most excessive-profile current case in involving NCAA playing guidelines violations, former Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon obtained a 15-12 months present trigger order earlier this month for offering details about his crew to a gambler who used it to make unlawful wagers.
The Tennessee Sports Wagering Advisory Council knowledgeable Sewanee about wagering exercise by the coach in March 2023.
Brody Curry stepped down as Sewanee’s girls’s coach, the college introduced, on July 14. He beforehand served as an assistant coach for the lads’s crew from 2020-22.
The unidentified Sewanee coach was given a present-trigger order, which comes with a 5-sport suspension to be served at first of the primary season of employment if he’s employed by one other NCAA establishment over the following two years. Also, if a faculty was to rent the coach throughout the present-trigger interval that establishment will probably be required to offer particular person month-to-month guidelines schooling to the coach.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions additionally positioned Sewanee on one-12 months probation and fined the varsity $1,500.
The COI thought-about the case by way of the cooperative abstract disposition course of. Sewanee, the top coach and the enforcement employees agreed to the first info and violations within the abstract disposition report. Because the varsity and coach accepted the penalties, neither might enchantment.
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