Arkansas Business

This story is from the archives of ArkansasSports360.com.

The Baylor women's basketball team became the first squad to record a 40-0 season in 2012. Other teams have gone undefeated, but no other team has ever won so many games in one year.

So with that success, of course it would come to pass that NCAA investigations into the program could result in future sanctions for Baylor.

Even the men's team isn't safe. No wonder the women had the Heisman quarterback cut the net with them. He may have been the only qualified athlete on the court.

The crimes? A few phone calls made to recruits that violated the quantity allowed by the NCAA.

The men's and women's basketball programs at Baylor University are facing possible NCAA sanctions following an investigation that uncovered more than 1,200 impermissible phone calls and text messages during a 29-month span...

The 66-page report documented a handful of secondary violations against a number of the school's programs, but it focused on the phone calls and texts. The NCAA enforcement staff labeled the improprieties as "major violations," mainly because of the frequency with which they occurred.

Combined, the men's and women's basketball programs sent 738 impermissible text messages and made 528 impermissible calls over a span of nearly 2½ years.

[Insert Houston Nutt joke here.]

The Bears have been under the "cloud of scrutiny" since recruiting star Brittney Griner in 2008. What more will come from this release? I'm sure someone will give us a ring when it becomes news.