Norman, Okla. ? Oklahoma will meet with NCAA officials in April regarding an investigation into the school’s men’s basketball and gymnastics programs, the school said Wednesday.
Athletic director Joe Castiglione said Oklahoma had been working with the NCAA and, along with NCAA enforcement staff, presented information to the Committee on Infractions. The meeting will determine whether a series of self-imposed sanctions is adequate or if the NCAA feels further penalties are necessary.
“We are pleased that we now have reached the point in the process to bring the matter to final resolution,” Castiglione said in a statement.
According to the university’s news release, the investigation determined members of the Oklahoma men’s basketball program made or attempted to make impermissible calls to 17 prospects between April 2000 and September 2004, made three impermissible in-person contacts with recruits and improperly gave a T-shirt to one recruit and the parent of one recruit.
The NCAA also alleges Oklahoma’s men’s basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, failed to adequately monitor his staff’s telephone calls to recruits during that period, and the university had inadequate monitoring procedures in place, according to the release.
Castiglione said Oklahoma had self-imposed several sanctions on its men’s basketball program, including:
