Creighton put on probation by NCAA amid fallout of FBI probe

The Creighton men’s basketball program has been placed on two years’ probation and docked scholarships each of the next two seasons by the NCAASCOTUS rules NCAA can't limit student-athlete education-related gifts and benefitsThe NCAA put the Creighton men’s basketball program on two years’ probation Tuesday after finding a former assistant coach accepted cash from a management agency, while the athletic director did his own investigation and kept the findings to himself until the FBI released details of a corruption scandal.The Bluejays also were docked scholarships and given recruiting restrictions, among other penalties, and athletic director Bruce Rasmussen was found to have violated ethics rules in a case that has ensnared several big-name schools.“I thank the NCAA staff for their thorough investigation,” Rasmussen said in a prepared statement.