Ucla’s Harrick Reportedly Has Been Cleared Of Violation

UCLA basketball coach Jim Harrick has reportedly been cleared of violating NCAA rules in the sale of a car he owned to the sister of a top recruit.

Neither the Pacific-10 nor UCLA would comment Tuesday on reports that a conference investigation had not turned up any wrongdoing by the Bruins coach.

Both the conference and the university have been looking into the sale of a car by Harrick’s son, Glenn, to Lisa Hodoh on Sept. 20.

The sale came two days after Baron Davis, the woman’s younger brother, verbally committed to play for the Bruins. Davis is a highly recruited 6-foot-1 point guard who is a senior at Crossroads High in Santa Monica, Calif.

Jim Muldoon, the Pac-10’s assistant commissioner, said from his Walnut Creek, Calif., office he could neither confirm nor deny the reports in Tuesday’s editions of the Los Angeles Daily News and South Bay Daily Breeze.

“We expect the investigation to be concluded by the end of the week. That’s the only comment I can make at this time,” Muldoon said.

Purdue basketball coach Gene Keady denies claims that one of his former players received $5,000 to return to the team and other players were given cars.

“I don’t know what their motives are. I don’t know why they’d want to hurt me,” Keady told the Lafayette Journal and Courier.

Keady’s comments followed a claim by former women’s player Summer Erb that former men’s player Luther Clay was given $5,000 in cash to come back to the team last season.