Ball State is investigating the source of notes with racist language found in the offices of men’s basketball coach Ronny Thompson and his staff.
The notes included copies of articles from the student newspaper about the school’s findings that Thompson and his staff broke NCAA rules in May by being at voluntary off-season team workouts and then lied about their involvement.
Notes were slipped under the office doors of Thompson and other staff members over the weekend. They included racial slurs along with “cheaters” and “liars,” school officials said.
*Eastern Illinois hired former Florida A&M assistant Chrys Cornelius, who played at Joliet Catholic, as a men’s basketball assistant coach.
*Young High School graduate Tasha Pointer was named women’s basketball assistant at Rutgers — her alma mater.
*Louisville assistant men’s basketball coach Marvin Menzies will take over for Reggie Theus as head coach at New Mexico State.
*Tennessee dismissed football walk-on Justin Jackson after an arrest on a felony charge of possessing and selling crack cocaine.
