The NCAA investigations into schools implicated in the ongoing federal case involving college basketball “have already been launched,” but no resolution is expected before the Final Four, NCAA President Mark Emmert said Wednesday.
That means those schools, including No. 2 and unbeaten Kansas, could play under a cloud of suspicion deep into March Madness.
“We obviously want to make sure that we’re doing everything that we can to promote the ethics of the game,” Emmert said during the Learfield Athletics Forum in Manhattan. “This whole incident cast a very bad light on college basketball and we need to deal with it as effectively as we can and we’re not going to have everything wrapped up by the Final Four, that’s for sure, because these trials are still going to be going on.