North Carolina State and the NCAA Committee on Infractions cannot get along. Amid increasingly rancorous rhetoric from both sides, the men’s basketball case against the Wolfpack is heading to the adjudicative “off ramp.”
At the request of NCAA COI chair Carol Cartwright and with the “reluctant” agreement of the school, the case involving a $40,000 payment allegedly to secure the 2015 commitment of former five-star guard Dennis Smith Jr., will be headed to the new Independent Accountability Resolution Process. This will be the second case to be resolved outside the traditional peer-review structure, following a Memphis men’s basketball case earlier this year.