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Arizona issues statement refuting new NCAA investigation

All those a media reports that the NCAA has launched a new investigation into the Arizona men’s basketball program are wrong, technically. So says the school itself in a statement issued Saturday afternoon:

It was first reported in February by Yahoo! Sports that the NCAA had begun an investigation into the program, almost certainly stemming from Arizona’s connections to the federal college basketball bribery scandal. The school had never formally confirmed such an inquiry had begun until Friday, when it told the Arizona Daily Star that “investigations into the University of Arizona men’s basketball program are ongoing at this time.