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Will Final Four banner have to come down? USC and college basketball on shaky ground | The State

We can add a new acronym to the lexicon of college sports, and it’s a really scary one.

South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner released a statement Friday which read, “We first learned of the allegations in the Yahoo Sports report last night, and remain committed to cooperating with the NCAA and the DOJ.”

The NCAA is shorthand that every college sports fan knows. It’s the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The “DOJ” in Tanner’s statement is the Department of Justice, yes that Department of Justice, and college basketball fans are going to become very familiar with that acronym soon enough.