WSU To Hear From Ncaa

Washington State officials will learn today whether the NCAA will impose further sanctions in connection with the school’s most recent NCAA rules violations.

The NCAA has scheduled a press teleconference at 10:30 a.m. to announce its final resolution of penalties against WSU for infractions that occurred within the past four years and were self-reported by the school to the Pacific-10 Conference last June.

Those infractions included the use of ineligible players in football and baseball, the failure to properly report such violations and a general lack of institutional control over the eligibility certification process.

In response to the infractions,

the Pac-10 publicly reprimanded and censured the school and extended its probation from a previous case to June 21, 1997.

The conference also ordered the school to tighten its certification procedures and make its top athletic department officials attend annual NCAA and Pac-10 compliance seminars during the duration of the probation period.