The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions brought its hammer down upon another SEC program last week and hit the Missouri Tigers’ football, baseball and softball programs with a one-year postseason ban, along with crippling recruiting restrictions.
The penalties were dealt in response to a former tutor at the school completing work for 12 student athletes while they were in attendance at the university. According to the NCAA, Missouri took “affirmative steps to expedite final resolution of the matter” and showed exemplary cooperation, and the committee concluded that the tutor acted on her own and not at the bidding of members of the athletic department the infractions committee chose to levy a postseason ban for three of the school’s programs.