IF YOU FOLLOW men’s college basketball, you know that Georgia didn’t play last night in New Orleans for the national championship. But it could have–had it not disgraced itself. Georgia finished the regular season with 19 wins and 8 losses, having won 11 of 16 games in the Southeastern Conference. Having defeated four Top 25 teams, Georgia was ranked 21st in the Associated Press poll. Not even an opening round defeat in the SEC tournament was going to stop it from getting an invitation to the NCAA Tournament.

But as the regular season ended, in an interview on ESPN, former Georgia player Tony Cole accused Jim Harrick Jr., an assistant coach and son of head coach Jim Harrick, of academic fraud. Cole said he received an “A” for a course taught by the younger Harrick, though he never attended a single class. The course was “Basketball Strategy.”