OT: Tommy Amaker's star players involved in widespread cheating scandal

Submitted by michelin on

After a spectacular start--last year leading Harvard to its first NCAA appearance in 65 years---Tommy Amaker faces trouble.  The co-captains of Amaker's BB team are among those implicated in a widespread academic cheating scandal.  One of them--who could have become the Ivy player of the year--will leave the school (at least for now).  Both of them are out for the year.

The scandal is widespread and includes more than a hundred students, mostly nonathletes.  So, this scandal in no way resembles the kind of academic fraud that occurred at North Carolina.  Also, I have seen no evidence that Amaker's players were driven to cheat because they were doing poorly or were underqualified for the classes.  And I doubt that one can blame Amaker for his players' bad decisions.  Nevertheless, it is a big blow to his team's hopes this year. 


http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/11/harvard-mens-basketball-kyl…

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Buck Killer

September 11th, 2012 at 12:46 PM ^

Player with zero income bought 30k in jewelery, why isn't this front page? I don't have time to research, sorry.

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September 11th, 2012 at 2:46 PM ^

I can't believe one would have to cheet at harvard.  My sister-in-law is a prof there and receives a memo each year that states she is NOT ALLOWED to give less than a B- to any student regardless.  No one gets bad grades there, why would anyone need to cheet?!?

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