TCU HOOPS PROGRAM ON THREE YEARS’ PROBATION

The NCAA has placed the TCU men's basketball program on three years' probation and punished a former assistant coach for allegedly accepting $6,000 from an aspiring sports agent and then lying to the school about it.

The school avoided scholarship reductions and limits on recruiting imposed on other programs in a federal corruption case that has ensnared several big-name schools. TCU was fined $5,000 and 1% of its men's basketball budget.

TCU placed assistant Corey Barker on administrative leave in March 2019 after he was accused of accepting the money in a Las Vegas hotel room two years earlier.

Barker says he gave the money back almost immediately after the Las Vegas meeting that was caught on surveillance video. The NCAA said it found no evidence the money was ever returned.