Will there be a hearing with the NCAA and Kelvin Sampson?”
Indiana University is about to go on defense with the NCAA. School officials are scheduled to go before the NCAA infractions committee on June 13 in Seattle over alleged rules violations by former basketball coach Kelvin Sampson. They will be trying to avoid penalties beyond the scholarship and recruiting restrictions the school imposed when the allegations came to light last year. The case against Sampson was detailed in a 96-page report sent to the university in May and made public last week. The NCAA accuses Sampson of providing false and misleading information to investigators about more than 100 impermissible recruiting phone calls and knowingly violating NCAA recruiting restrictions imposed because of a previous phone-call scandal at Oklahoma. What Indiana must do now is explain how all this happened while making the case it has endured enough punishment and made major changes through its buyout of Sampson’s contract and reorganization of its athletic compliance staff. A decision
