Former LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade received a 10-game suspension and a two-year show cause until 2025 for his involvement in the program’s reported recruiting violations, according to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
In addition to Wade’s suspension, his show-cause mandate prohibits him from off-campus recruiting during any applicable April or summer evaluation, reduces his official visits by four over the next two academic years and bans recruiting discussions and unofficial visits between Sept. 1 and Oct. 15 of this year and next year.
Wade, who is now the basketball coach at McNeese State, was fired as the Tigers’ coach in March 2022 after the NCAA cited him in six out of eight total Level I violations handed down by the NCAA for LSU’s alleged recruiting violations within the basketball and football programs. Of the eight, seven were linked to the basketball program, according to The Advocate. Bill Armstrong, Wade’s top assistant at LSU, was identified in one Level I violation as well as a Level II violation.
