STILLWATER — Oklahoma State announced Friday afternoon its intention to appeal the NCAA’s ruling of a one-year postseason ban and other penalties against the men’s basketball team after a former coach accepted bribes to influence student-athletes.
“The University is stunned by the severity of the penalties and strongly disagrees with them,” the university announced in a release. “The penalties do not align with the facts and are unfair and unjust.”
The Cowboys received the one-year ban, a loss of three scholarships for the next three seasons and a $10,000 fine among other recruiting penalties.
The ruling stems from an FBI probe that found former Cowboys assistant Lamont Evans was found to have accepted bribes to link players with bribe-paying managers and financial advisers from April 2016 through September 2017.