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The University of Minnesota basketball scandal involved National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules violations, most notably academic dishonesty, committed by the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. The ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'' published an article on the day before the 1999 NCAA Tournament, with revelations by Minnesota academic counseling office manager Jan Gangelhoff that she had done coursework for at least 20 Minnesota basketball players since 1993. The story led to the immediate suspension of four players from the Minnesota basketball team pending an investigation for academic fraud and later the resignations of head coach Clem Haskins, men's athletic director Mark Dienhart, and university vice president McKinley Boston. Minnesota voluntarily sat out the 1999–00 postseason, among other self-imposed sanctions. In 2000, the NCAA placed the Minnesota men's basketball program on four years' probation and reduced scholarships, based on numerous findings of academic fraud, improper benefits, and other ethics violations. ==''St. Paul Pioneer Press'' stories== On March 10, 1999, the day before Minnesota was to play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'' published an article by George Dohrmann reporting allegations made by Jan Gangelhoff, an office manager of the university academic counseling unit, that she had done hundreds of pieces of coursework for over 20 Minnesota men's basketball players. According to Dohrmann, former players including Courtney James and Bobby Jackson corroborated Gangelhoff's claims, and Gangelhoff provided printed samples of coursework written by her and turned in by students.〔 Among other allegations by Gangelhoff: she was allowed to continue assisting players despite being caught in 1996 doing a take-home exam with a player, an assistant coach drove players to Gangelhoff's home for tutoring sessions in possible violation of NCAA rules, Gangelhoff duplicated the same work for different student-athletes to turn in to different classes, and coach Clem Haskins paid Gangelhoff in cash to tutor players.〔 Immediately after the ''Pioneer Press'' story went to press, the University of Minnesota began an investigation into the allegations and suspended four players for the NCAA Tournament: starters Kevin Clark and Miles Tarver, and reserves Antoine Broxsie and Jason Stanford. Minnesota lost to Gonzaga in the first round of the tournament on March 11. Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura accused the ''Pioneer Press'' of timing the article to be published around NCAA Tournament time for the sake of "sensationalism journalism," and the ''Pioneer Press'' got many hostile calls and letters in response to the story. After the March 10 article, two more people came forward claiming to have done coursework for Minnesota basketball players: Gangelhoff's sister Jeanne Payer and Minnesota sociology doctoral candidate Alexandra Goulding. In a ''Pioneer Press'' article published on March 24, 1999, Goulding said that she wrote a paper for Minnesota starting forward Courtney James in 1995. After telling coach Haskins that she would never do student-athletes' assignments again, Goulding described Haskins' response: "() needed a lot of help." 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「University of Minnesota basketball scandal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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