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Clemson to ‘immediately conduct a review’ as hoops assistant linked to FBI NCAA case

The FBI basketball trial continued on Tuesday, and Clemson’s national championship football team, Zion Williamson and the men’s basketball team were brought into the discussion because of something an assistant hoops coach said on an FBI wiretap, according to a reporter in the courtroom.

Clemson assistant basketball coach Steve Smith was caught on a wiretap discussing the recruitment of Zion Williamson, as well as the Clemson football program, according to Matt Norlander of CBSSports. Norlander was tweeting updates from the FBI basketball trial in New York Thursday.

Clemson responded to the testimony.

“We are aware of the developments in federal court today involving one of our men’s basketball assistant coaches.