The FBI investigation into illicit college basketball recruiting landed at Kansas this week with the revelation money exchanged hands to steer two players to the Jayhawks.
It was bad news for Kansas. But how bad?
To begin to find answers, let’s return to where this all started, with a news conference on Sept. 26, 2017 at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said until that day, he didn’t believe the NCAA was aware of the investigation but had been notified presumably earlier in the day and “we will be working with them and talking to them.