The book has been closed on the federal case against former Arizona basketball assistant Emanuel ‘Book’ Richardson, who on Thursday was sentenced to three years in prison on a bribery charge.
Richardson, an Arizona assistant from 2010-16, plead guilty to the single count back in January. He had been facing a much longer sentence had he been found guilty of five federal charges stemming from his September 2017, which signified the first time an FBI investigation into college basketball corruption had been made public.
One of a handful of coaches arrested in 2017, Richardson admitted to $20,000 in bribes in exchange for helping steer current Arizona players toward particular agents.