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Mark Emmert says investigation into North Carolina academic fraud nears end

The NCAA’s investigation into the academic scandal that occurred in the North Carolina athletics program is drawing to a close, according to NCAA President Mark Emmert.

The NCAA’s investigation into the academic scandal that occurred in the North Carolina athletics program is drawing to a close, according to NCAA President Mark Emmert.

“Sometime in the relatively near future we’ll move toward a resolution,’’ Emmert told USA TODAY Sports, adding that he did not have a specific deadline.

In May the NCAA delivered to UNC a notice of allegations that included a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an African and Afro-American Studies and the counselors who advised them and four other rules violations. The academic improprieties took place between 1993 and 2011 and involved athletes from numerous sports, according to an investigation conducted by a former U.S. Justice Department official.

Delays in the process spared the men’s basketball team, which on Sunday plays Notre Dame for a spot in the Final Four, from the possibility of being banned from the 2015-16 postseason.

“It has obviously been a long, drawn out process,’’ Emmert said. “It took the university a long time to gather the facts on their end. 

“They wanted that opportunity and everyone was pleased to give them that opportunity, or willing to give them that opportunity. And it’s actually been moving forward well and in a cooperative collaborate fashion like these things are supposed to.’’

The committee on infractions must hear the case before penalties are issued.

 

 

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