College Basketball: What we know about FBI Investigation so far
By Taylor Sturm
Rick Pitino is now out at Louisville, and the massive bribery scandal in college basketball is just beginning. Here is everything we know about the FBI investigation so far.
A massive scandal is currently gripping the world of college basketball, involving Adidas, assistant coaches, and now a big-name firing.
Everything we know so far
The FBI investigation that has turned the college basketball world upside down began with the arrests of 10 people, including four assistant coaches and the director of global sports marketing for Adidas.
These five “big names” are as follows:
Lamont Evans, an assistant coach at Oklahoma State who you can read about here.
Chuck Person, an assistant coach at Auburn who you can read about here.
Emmanuel “Boom” Richardson, an assistant coach at Arizona who you can read about here.
Tony Bland, an assistant coach at USC who you can read about here.
Jim Gatto, the director of global sports marketing for Adidas who you can read about here.
The FBI used undercover agents as a way to obtain evidence that the four assistant coaches were accepting bribes and used this to justify their charges.
Some of this surrounds highly-touted Class of 2017 recruit Brian Bowen, a 6’7, 194-pound small forward who was rated as a five-star recruit across the board and a top 20 player by 247 Sports. He surprisingly chose the Louisville Cardinals extremely late in the recruiting process.
It is alleged that Bowen and his family received $100,000 in order for him to choose Louisville, an Adidas school, which we have highlighted further for you here.
These allegations have yet to have far-reaching impacts, but they have had some massive consequences.