SPORTS BRIEF: Amaker, Men's Hoops Cleared of Wrongdoing

The Ivy League announced yesterday that it has cleared men’s basketball head coach Tommy Amaker and assistant coach Kenny Blakeney of any wrongdoing after an investigation of allegations raised in a New York Times article on Mar. 2, 2008.

“The League has determined that no violations of NCAA or Ivy League rules occurred,” the League office said in a statement issued on its website. In addition, the League “concluded that Harvard’s admission of recruited men’s basketball players complied with all relevant Ivy League obligations.”

The March article had accused Amaker of improper contact with a recruit who eventually committed to Penn, guard Zach Rosen, and claimed that Blakeney had recruited Crimson freshmen Max Kenyi and Keith Wright before he was employed by the school, which would have been a violation of NCAA rules.

Kenyi and Wright were part of the highest-rated recruiting class in Harvard history, and Amaker's first recruiting class since arriving from Michigan.