Shortly after news broke that the NCAA gave the Oklahoma State basketball program a postseason ban and took away three scholarships over the next three years, Mike Holder was a part of a teleconference Friday afternoon.
Holder’s opening statement was perhaps the fieriest portion of the hourlong conference. Here is that statement in its entirety.
“I find it almost impossible to reconcile the severe penalties imposed by the NCAA for the violations detailed in today’s report. The NCAA agreed that Lamont Evans acted alone and for his own benefit. The NCAA also agreed that OSU did not benefit in recruiting, commit a recruiting violation, did not play an ineligible player and did not display a lack of institutional control.