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The FBI Trials Have Begun and College Basketball’s Day of Reckoning is Here

If you can remember back to the day this story broke last year, a morning in which a bunch of sneaker company executives, agents, runners and college basketball assistant coaches were nabbed by the FBI, virtually everyone who covers college basketball – including me – gave a warning to those who love the sport: This was just the tip of the iceberg. It seemed inevitable that other programs would become involved. It seemed certain that other big-time coaches would lose their jobs. Yet outside of Maryland, Kansas and NC State being loosely implicated in the probe back in April, there has been relatively little “news” out of the case.