Former Duke basketball player Lance Thomas has agreed to a settlement with the jeweler suing him for defaulting on payments.
Lance Thomas’s jewelry purchase could hurt Duke
Emmert acknowledged that the NCAA’s investigation would be more difficult without cooperation, but if its probe yields concrete evidence of malfeasance, it would feel justified in handing out sanctions.
Thomas spent nearly $100,000 on jewelry in a purchase in December of 2009. The matter became public when the jewelry store sued Thomas for failing to repay a line of credit. Neither he nor the jewelry store are under any obligation to talk to the NCAA about this matter.
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