A state government official has started to plead the case for Oklahoma State basketball to have their NCAA sanctions reduced.
On Friday, Attorney General of Oklahoma Mike Hunter — an OSU alum — sent a three-page letter to the NCAA on behalf of the team, saying the ruling is “unjustifiable, illogical and needs to be re-assessed.”
On June 5, the NCAA Committee on Fractions placed OSU on three years of probation and banned the Cowboys from playing in postseason tournaments for the 2020-21 season. The penalties stem from Level 1 violations by former associate head coach Lamont Evans, who was sentenced in June 2019 to three months in prison for accepting between $18,150 and $22,000 in bribes to bring players from South Carolina and OSU to agents and financial advisers.