With the IARP issuing an amended notice of allegations recently, Arizona Basketball may finally be closer to the end of the ongoing investigation.
It had been four years since Arizona Basketball was named as one of the six major programs that were caught up in the 2017 FBI bribery investigation, and since then, the Wildcats have been desperately looking for a resolution.
For fans that have been following this case, it has been a long time since Arizona was initially named in the investigation, and we have all been growing restless as everyone just wants to move on.
Since the investigation broke, a lot has happened. Book Richardson served his sentence, former assistant Mark Phelps was released from the program, the Wildcats were leveled with five, Level I allegations, the team self-imposed a one-year postseason ban, and Sean Miller was fired this past April.
Now granted, Arizona has done its best to distance itself from that 2017 investigation, and of course, the program decided to go through the Independent Accountability Resolution Process last October. However, that was already a year ago, and here we are today, with seemingly no end in sight.
That is until days ago when the IARP issued an amended notice of allegations, which may push up the timeline for Arizona Basketball.
Right now, we are essentially in unprecedented territory. Remember, this is a new process that was rolled out by the NCAA, and all we seemingly have to go off of is precedent that has been set by other programs in the same boat as us.
While no details are fully known about the exact timeline, or what the IARP may rule as a punishment, however, based on their latest date, we could finally be in the home stretch of the investigation.
The hope is that this will soon be over, and the Wildcats can begin to finally move on. After all, this has already gone on far too long!