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Alcorn State University improperly certified 28 athletes in 11 sports as eligible for competition when they should not have been, the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced Wednesday in penalizing the university. The NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions handled the case through the association's summary disposition process, which is used when the NCAA and the institution generally agree on the findings of wrongdoing.
In this case, the NCAA said, Alcorn State officials did not fully understand the rules and certified credit hours that were not related to the athletes' degrees. The infractions panel fined the university $5,000 (but let Alcorn State put the funds toward rules compliance education) and required the vacation of records for games in which the ineligible athletes competed.
