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L.S.U. Reinstates Coach Implicated in Recruiting Scandal

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Louisiana State announced Sunday that it had lifted a monthlong suspension of its head basketball coach, Will Wade, over suspicions of his involvement in the ring of recruiting corruption that was first revealed by federal prosecutors in 2017.

The university’s athletic director, Joe Alleva, said that Wade had met Friday with officials from both Louisiana State and the N.C.A.A. Those meetings came after more than a month of silence following the revelation that Wade had made damning remarks, to the effect that he had made an “offer” to a recruit, on a phone call to a recruiting middleman who has since been convicted of fraud.