NCAA Puts Mississippi State on Probation After Investigation Into Academic Misconduct

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. The tutor completed multiple assignments, took…