The NCAA announced that South Carolina’s men’s basketball team had five violations from last season, four of which were minor violations, according to the Associated Press. Some of the violations sound ridiculous: The Gamecocks were reprimanded for providing the team with impermissible snacks during road games.
However, not all of the violations were a laughing matter, according to the Associated Press.
Just one of the five men’s basketball citations rose to Level I, the more serious classification where infractions are reported directly to the NCAA enforcement staff. The school reported on Feb. 13 that a basketball player and a recruit were provided entertainment not allowed under NCAA rules during an official visit.
Those included a basketball prospect interviewed by the media during an official visit; free tickets not issued according to procedure; impermissible free tickets to South Carolina’s NIT loss to Davidson at the Colonial Life Arena in March; and a prospect was given improper hotel accommodations during an official visit
