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A rare student-athlete: Giovanni McLean escapes transcript scandal, beats NCAA odds

Giovanni McLean walked into the office, looked around and knew one thing beyond all doubt: This could not be good. Tom Moore, his head coach with the Quinnipiac basketball team, was there. Of course he was there. His office. So were two of the Bobcats’ assistant coaches. And, wait: Alyssa? She was there, too? That meant — no, it couldn’t be that.

Yeah, he knew what that meant. He just didn’t understand what any of it had to do with him.

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All week, McLean had been aware of the transcript scandal cycloning through the basketball program at Westchester Community College in suburban New York, where he’d completed his junior college career.