Former Oklahoma State coach Lamont Evans was sentenced to three months prison time on Friday for his role in the college basketball scandal.
Evans, who was at South Carolina and coached under Frank Martin before joining Brad Underwood’s staff and later Mike Boynton’s staff, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery after accepting $22,000 in bribes in exchange for steering players to financial advisers.
While the short sentence is far less harsh than the two-year sentence prosecutors were seeking, it’s nonetheless a hefty penalty to be paid for doing something that, as Evans’ lawyers argued, was an NCAA violation but not a federal crime.