Just when it appeared things were looking up for USC Basketball, the program was rocked with a scandal involving associate head coach Tony Bland.
Bland was arrested for his role in a bribery and fraud scheme uncovered by the FBI this summer, involving college basketball agents, assistant coaches and a global sports apparel company.
The USC assistant was one of four college basketball coaches arrested as part of the investigation which was made possible by a cooperating witness who had recently been charged by the SEC for fraud and two undercover FBI agents.
The FBI alleges that Bland accepted a $13,000 bribe Christian Dawkins and Munish Sood in exchange for his asserting his influence over USC basketball players, funneling them to Dawkins and Sood for their business management and financial advisory services.