The National Collegiate Athletic Association placed the University of Memphis on two years of probation after determining that a former academic counselor orchestrated academic fraud benefiting the men’s basketball program. An NCAA panel found that Leslie Brooks paid two softball student-athletes to complete coursework and supply test and quiz answers for a men’s basketball player, allowing three athletes to compete in 20 contests while ineligible. Memphis must pay a $30,000 fine and remit an additional 1% of the combined men’s basketball and softball budgets. The school also must vacate the results of all games in which the ineligible athletes participated and submit to enhanced academic-integrity monitoring during the probation period. Brooks received a 10-year show-cause order that bars her from athletically related duties at any NCAA member institution unless restrictions are imposed. The NCAA declined to levy penalties against head men’s basketball coach Penny Hardaway, concluding he was not involved in the misconduct.