Clemson Basketball Goes on Probation
The NCAA put Clemson’s basketball program on two years’ probation for major rule violations Wednesday but stopped short of banning the Tigers from postseason play and television appearances.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions prohibited any expense-paid, on-campus visits by basketball recruits next year and only two such visits in 1994. The committee also accepted the school’s self-imposed sanctions, which include no off-campus recruiting until Aug. 6, and one fewer scholarship each of the next two years.
“Basically, we eliminated recruiting both off and on campus for a year,” committee chairman David Swank said. “We thought that was a significant penalty.
“Had the violations been more extensive, different types of penalties would have probably been imposed.”
It is the fourth time in 16 years a program at the Atlantic Coast Conference school has been put on probation.
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