{"id":182746,"date":"2025-07-20T04:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/182746\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T04:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:21:16","slug":"memphis-basketball-fined-put-on-probation-after-ncaa-finds-softball-players-were-paid-to-help-with-coursework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/182746\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis basketball fined, put on probation after NCAA finds softball players were paid to help with coursework"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The NCAA announced penalties for the Memphis<\/a> men’s basketball and softball programs on Wednesday as the result of an investigation into academic integrity violations. The investigation concluded that two softball players were paid a combined $550 by a former academic advisor, Leslie Brooks, to give the basketball player test and quiz answers and do some of his coursework for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result, the three players competed in 20 contests while ineligible. Both programs will be placed on two-year probation and fined $30,000, plus 1% of their combined budget.\u00a0From the NCAA’s statement<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

… The enforcement staff and school agreed that the violations in this case occurred when Brooks asked two softball student-athletes to assist a men’s basketball student-athlete with coursework for classes they had in common and said she would pay the student-athletes for supporting him. The first softball student-athlete went on to complete three assignments for the men’s basketball student-athlete and was paid $150. The second softball student-athlete provided the answers to five tests and four quizzes to Brooks, plus the answers to an additional two tests and one quiz directly to the men’s basketball student-athlete. She was paid $400 by Brooks.<\/p>\n

On top of the fine and probation — which does not prohibit either team from competing in the postseason — the NCAA is vacating the records from the 20 games that the players participated in while ineligible. Brooks has been given the stiffest punishment of anyone involved with a 10-year show-cause penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The NCAA announced penalties for the Memphis men’s basketball and softball programs on Wednesday as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,3236,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-182746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-memphis-tigers","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114883650104034505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}