By now it must have occurred to Illini basketball fans what their favorites are up against. It’s a nasty, unscrupulous world out there.
And for all those who get caught with their hand in the cookie jar — the 2015 year opened with 18 Division 1 schools dealing with academic fraud alone — don’t you wonder how many cheat and get away with it?
Here are a few perpetrators with Illini connections.
— Madam Katina Powell has charged in a new book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules,” that former Louisville player and assistant coach Andre McGee paid her $10,000 to arrange 22 sex parties from 2010 to 2014 for Louisville players, recruits and recruits’ fathers.