STILLWATER — Oklahoma State’s men’s basketball team was banned from the 2021 postseason after a former coach accepted bribes to influence student athletes, the NCAA announced Friday morning.
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.
The investigation did not include other current OSU coaches or players.
“The conduct at issue in this case was related to a broader scheme that involved money and influence at the intersection of college and professional basketball,” the NCAA committee said in a release.