NCAA bans Oklahoma State men’s basketball from 2021 postseason | CBS Sports HQ

The NCAA made its intentions loud and clear on Friday: it punished Oklahoma State’s men’s basketball program with a postseason ban for the 2020-21 season.

Oklahoma State is the first program to be served with punishments by the Committee on Infractions as a result of the FBI’s probe into college basketball recruiting.

The sanctions stem from a Level I unethical conduct charge against former Cowboys associate head coach Lamont Evans, who was one of 10 men charged in September 2017 in the federal government’s investigation that led to Evans ultimately serving three months in prison in the summer of 2019.

Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton was never charged in the case. Boynton took over the program in the spring of 2017; he was previously an assistant for one season at OSU, alongside Evans, who were both hired at the school by former Oklahoma State coach Brad Underwood, who is now at Illinois. (Underwood was not mentioned/charged in the case.)

Evans was accused of unethical conduct after federal wiretaps and undercover videos caught him engaging in schemes to recruit players to schools he was employed by. The endgame was to link prospects up with then-runner Christian Dawkins’ sports agency, which was unknowingly being funded by the FBI in order to prove the government’s case.

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