TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The NCAA has placed 16 Alabama athletic teams on three years probation for major violations, including football and men’s basketball, due to misuse of free textbooks.The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions said Thursday the football team must forfeit an unspecified number of wins in which any of seven players took part during 2005-2007. The university identified the seven as intentional wrongdoers.The NCAA said that 201 student-athletes in the 16 sports obtained impermissible benefits by using their scholarships to obtain free textbooks for other students. It also found the university guilty of “failure to monitor.”The university was ordered to pay a $43,900 fine, close to the total value of the books.Alabama identified 22 of the student-athletes as “intentional wrongdoers” who knew they were receiving improper benefits.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Alabama football, men’s basketball among teams on three years probation – 2:15 p.m.
June 10, 2009