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The Binghamton University basketball scandal was an incident in the United States that arose out of concerns that Binghamton University had compromised its integrity in order to make the Bearcats men's basketball program more competitive in Division I. Following a series of incidents in the fall of 2009, an investigation by the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton's parent institution, found that Binghamton's administration had significantly lowered its admissions standards for prospective recruits under pressure from men's head coach Kevin Broadus and his staff. It also detailed several potential NCAA violations by Broadus and his staff. The scandal resulted in Broadus resigning in October 2010, though he had been relieved of coaching duties before then. It also resulted in the resignation of the school's athletic director, the firing of two assistant coaches, and the dismissal of six players from the team. Due to the fallout from the scandal, Binghamton elected to sit out postseason play in 2010. The SUNY investigation was forwarded to the NCAA. However the NCAA was unable to find any major violations. ==Background== Binghamton had been one of the great stories of the 2008–09 basketball season. In the school's eighth season in Division I, Broadus led the Bearcats to a school record-tying 23 wins, a tie for first place in the America East Conference, and the school's first conference tournament title in 63 years. In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Bearcats played powerful Duke fairly close in the first half before losing 86-62.〔(Binghamton Bearcats vs. Duke Blue Devils - NCAA Tournament Game - Recap - March 19, 2009 - ESPN )〕 Broadus was named the America East coach of the year. However, many were concerned that Binghamton had cut too many corners in its bid for basketball glory, and sacrificed its reputation as SUNY's strongest academic institution in the process. Management professor Dennis Lasser, the school's former faculty athletics representative, helped lead the effort to move Binghamton from Division III to Division I in 2001 (after a transition period in Division II from 1998 to 2001), but was replaced as faculty athletic representative after Kevin Broadus was hired as head basketball coach. Lasser claimed that, after the coaching change, Binghamton had lowered its standards for admitting prospective basketball players to the bare minimum required by the NCAA. Additionally, ESPN analyst Tom Brennan, former coach at longtime America East member Vermont, suggested that given the risks Broadus was taking, it was possible that a conference championship might not have been worth the effort. One major reason for Lasser and Brennan's concerns was that at least three players on the 2008–09 team had transferred to Binghamton from other schools due to academic problems. One of the transfers, guard Malik Alvin, was arrested for stealing condoms from a local Walmart. While being chased by security officers, Alvin ran over a 66-year-old woman, giving her a concussion. Alvin was suspended three games, but charges were subsequently dropped and he was back in the lineup for the rest of the season.〔 Earlier, forward Miladin Kovacevic (who was recruited by Broadus's predecessor Al Walker) beat a fellow student into a coma and fled to his native Serbia with the help of two Serbian diplomats.〔 〕 Former player Devon McBride told ''The New York Times'' that many of his teammates frequently drank alcohol and smoked marijuana, but Broadus did not seem to make any effort to keep a rein on their off-the-court behavior.〔 These concerns led America East commissioner Patrick Nero to talk with school president Lois DeFleur and athletic director Joel Thirer about the team's behavior.〔 The America East's other coaches reportedly voiced their displeasure with the way Broadus ran the program by bumping D.J. Rivera, the conference's leading scorer and by most accounts the league's best NBA prospect, to the conference's second team.〔(Binghamton 2009-10 basketball media guide )〕 Additionally, it emerged shortly after Broadus's 2007 hiring that while an assistant coach and recruiter at George Washington and Georgetown, he'd signed players from Lutheran Christian Academy, a school in Philadelphia widely accused of being a diploma mill.〔 One of those players, Mike Egerson, transferred to Lutheran Christian after earning only a 1.33 grade point average at his Delaware high school and garnering an SAT score in the 600s. Shortly before Broadus was hired at Binghamton, the NCAA announced it would no longer accept coursework from Lutheran Christian and several other suspected diploma mills. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Binghamton University basketball scandal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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