Oregon Ducks Get Two Years Probation After NCAA Finds Violations

PORTLAND, OR – The NCAA placed the Oregon Ducks on two-yeas probation after finding violations by several of the school's teams. The women's basketball, the men's basketball, the women's track and field, and football teams were all found to have violations.

Women's head coach Kelly Graves failed to monitor and promote an atmosphere of compliance while men's head coach Dana Altman failed to monitor his director of basketball operations, according to the NCAA.

The NCAA found that the women's assistant strength and conditioning coach broke the rules by taking part in activities on court while in the men's program, the director of basketball operations also participated in and watched voluntary workouts, also a rules violation.

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Meanwhile, an adjunct professor changed a grade to a B- from a F for Jasmine Todd, a member of the women's track and field team.

The football team used an electronic board during recruiting in a way that broke the rules.

The NCAA imposed several penalties on the university:

• Two years of probation from Dec. 5, 2018, through Dec. 4, 2020.
• A two-game suspension for the head women’s basketball coach during the 2018-19 season.
• A two-year show-cause order for the director of men’s basketball operations. Any NCAA member employing him during the period must require him to attend the 2019 and 2020 NCAA Regional Rules Seminars. Oregon took appropriate disciplinary measures, so the committee did not include any other restrictions.
• A vacation of records in which the track and field student-athlete participated while ineligible. The committee uses this penalty to hold the university accountable for allowing a student-athlete to complete while ineligible.
• The men’s basketball program must reduce the number of countable coaches by one at regular practice for five hours during the 2018-19 season (self-imposed by the university).
• The women’s basketball program must reduce the number of countable coaches by one at regular practice for 10 hours during the 2018-19 season (self-imposed by the university).
• A $5,000 fine plus 1 percent of each of the men’s and women’s basketball budgets.

The investigation started in Dec, 2017 when the NCAA sent a Notice of Allegations to Oregon.

Photo via University of Oregon Athletics.