COLUMBIA, MO. • The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions brought down the hammer on the University of Missouri for a former tutor’s admission of academic fraud and doing so blindsided the MU football, baseball and softball programs with postseason bans for the upcoming season, on top of scholarship and recruiting limitations.
The NCAA released its findings and penalties on Thursday, ruling that former tutor Yolanda Kumar, though unnamed in the report, violated NCAA ethical conduct, academic misconduct and academic extra benefits rules when she completed academic work for 12 Mizzou athletes between the summer of 2015 and the summer of 2016.