The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions brought down the hammer on the University of Missouri for former tutor Yolanda Kumar's admission of academic fraud with Mizzou athletes. The MU football, baseball and softball programs were all sentenced to postseason bans for the upcoming season, on top of scholarship and recruiting limitations and vacated wins and records.
The NCAA released its findings and penalties on Thursday, finding that Kumar, though unnamed in the report, violated NCAA ethical conduct, academic misconduct and academic extra benefits rules when she completed academic work for 12 Mizzou athletes.
Kumar told investigators she felt pressure to ensure the athletes passed courses, but the investigation "did not support that her colleagues directed her to complete the student-athletes’ work.