Biggest College Basketball Scandal
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CCNY back in the point shaving early 50's. I believe Manhattan was hung too iirc They took it to the max!
If we're going back that far, I guess you can include Kentucky's point-shaving history as well. I guess my poll could have been far longer.
UNC because of the length of time,the number of people involved and the massive cover-up.what went on there is astounding,probably bigger than any cover-up the U.S. Govt ever attempted
Forgot about that one. Yep pretty hard to beat. A good friend of mine played there in the direct aftermath. Was a pretty low time there for good reason.
Yeah that scandal at Baylor was bad. Plus, their coach was paying the tuition of the player that was murdered and he was caught on tape trying to get the rest of the team to lie about the situation and say that he was dealing drugs to pay his tuition.
If I were going to put UK on that list it would be for the point-shaving scandal. There's probably nothing that gets the wrath of the NCAA any more than a player taking money to try and throw a game. It was just a couple of guys, but again all of the other players and the school suffered for it. In the 80's, well let's just say to this day I'm not convinced anyone at UK actually sent that $1,000. Even if they did, those envelopes don't just "pop" open. Dwane Casey, a contemporary of mine at UK, took the fall for it. Fortunately he overcame it, and is now a very successful head coach in the NBA. Sutton went on to Ok St., and now some are saying he should be in the HOF. I strongly disagree.
Not sure what scandal you mean when naming individual coaches. If you're going that way - which seems to be most consistent corruption - than you'd have to include Calipari.
For what it's worth, Real Clear Sports named the point shaving scandal that included CCNY and UK as the second worst in the NCAA behind only SMU.
Agree with this,Casey got a pretty good settlement,but no one can talk about it per the terms of said settlement.
I guess you could include Cal. Since he was never found culpable of anything, I don't think of those issues as any more than Kansas sitting Cliff Alexander last year. Kansas was simply in the fortunate position of learning about the issues in time to sit him instead of learning after the fact.
Beg to differ. If it had only been a murder, then I might buy your logic. But the actions of the coach after the murder directly makes this a basketball scandal.
Dave Bliss was given a 10 year show cause penalty. 10 YEARS. If the coach did something so bad that the NCAA didn't want him coaching basketball for the next decade, that qualfies as a basketball scandal.
Edit to add: I wouldn't be shocked to discover that the UNC scandal, when completely unearthed, is just as bad or worse. Allegedly.
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Although it doesn't make it much better, just for the record the UK basketball players were guilty of shaving points (which means trying to play above or below the point spread), not throwing a game (which means to intentionally try to lose a game). Players at other schools were found to have thrown games but none of the UK players were.
Jon I know you know way more about that than I although I've got a pretty good handle on it. That was a poor choice of terms. Yes, what they did was try and win by less than the point spread. Still though an egregious offense in amateur sports. Professional to.
Actually most of the games they were found to have shaved points, they were trying to play over the point spread, although later they played under the point spread.
Ralph Beard was said to have been more than happy to play over the spread, but thought it was dangerous/wrong to play under and IMO he personally probably didn't play under even if his teammates did. He adamantly claimed that he never did anything to throw a game, which is consistent as well.
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Baylor number one and it isn't close
UNC, with their systematic and insitutionalized cheating for decades is two
UofL and hooker gate is three
Hey, if you're good enough to shave points and win, more power to ya.
UNC, with their systematic and insitutionalized cheating for decades is two
UofL and hooker gate is three
Hey, if you're good enough to shave points and win, more power to ya.
