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Louisiana State suspended its head men’s basketball coach, Will Wade, on Friday — less than two weeks before the N.C.A.A. tournament is set to begin — after a report that Wade made damning remarks to a recruiting middleman on a phone call that was wiretapped as part of a federal corruption investigation.
Wade had told Christian Dawkins, who was convicted of fraud last year for his connection to an illicit recruiting scheme involving Adidas and the University of Louisville, that he had made a “strong-ass offer” to one recruit, in a call that was recorded by law enforcement, according to a report on Thursday by Yahoo Sports.