The NCAA has put Mississippi State football and men's basketball on three years of probation after an investigation confirmed that a former student and part-time athletics department tutor committed "academic misconduct in an online general chemistry course" which aided 11 student-athletes. The program was docked a total of four football scholarships over a two-year span (two football scholarships during each of the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years) and one men's basketball scholarship during the 2020-21 season, among other sanctions.
According to the NCAA, 10 football players and one basketball player had work done for them by the same tutor.