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Evan Heichelbech/ Staff member of the College Heights Herald during Fall 2017.

It’s now been one week since the biggest scandal in modern college sports history rocked the college basketball world to its core.

While the details of the most damning scheme in amateur athletics are complex, the facts are simple: student athletes are being paid by shoe companies, AAU officials and college coaches to play college basketball.

In an FBI report last week, the FBI —yes, that’s the Federal Bureau of Investigation— exposed and uncovered what has long been the worst kept secret in college basketball.