The Commission on College Basketball released its recommendations to clean up college basketball on Wednesday, and many of the suggestions mirrored the findings released by the Pac-12 task force a month ago.
While the FBI's investigation into college basketball recruiting fraud and corruption has rocked the entire sport it has been a particularly heightened issue for the Pac-12, given the initial round of arrests in late September included two now-former assistant coaches who worked for Pac-12 programs — Arizona's Emanuel "Book" Richardson and USC's Tony Bland.
On Wednesday morning, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott offered this reaction to the Commission on College Basketball report:
"The Pac-12 Conference commends former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice and the NCAA Commission on College Basketball for the report it released today and its recommendations for basketball reform.