He said he and the FBI have not talked about it, and maintains he and the Gamecocks haven’t done anything illegal.

Three days after a Yahoo! Sports exclusive came out referencing PJ Dozier, Brian Bowen and current USC assistant Chuck Martin as names in the FBI’s investigation dealing with sports agents paying players, South Carolina head coach Frank Martin made his first public comments.

“We went to the Final Four last year and I’m telling you, we’re clean,” Martin said. “Am I perfect? No. Have I made mistakes? Yes. But I conduct business the right way.”

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Yahoo! Sports reported late last week a bevy of college basketball’s highest profile players were paid in some way by the ASM Sports agency or agents Christian Dawkins or Andy Miller.

According to Yahoo! Sports, former McDonald’s All-American and Gamecock point guard PJ Dozier was allegedly one of those players who received money, at least $6,100, from the agency.

Yahoo! Sports published spreadsheets obtained through sources close to the investigations. Dozier’s name wasn’t listed in the images of the ledgers published within the actual story, but his name was mentioned in the story.

Dozier played at South Carolina for two seasons, averaging 13.9 points his sophomore season while helping his team to the program’s first-ever Final Four.

Martin said he thinks Dozier is crushed his name came up in all of this and would be “surprised” if he did anything wrong.

“What that family’s done for this school and what this school’s done for that family, I would be shocked if they would do anything that would go against the integrity, the values that Ray Tanner, Harris Pastides and this university stand for,” Martin said. “I would be shocked or else he wouldn’t come to school here.”

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Brian Bowen, who’s currently on the team but not playing this year, was also mentioned in the report from his days being recruited by Louisville. According to reports, Bowen or his family received at least $7,000 in benefits.

South Carolina assistant Chuck Martin’s name was also listed from his days as an assistant at Indiana under then head coach Tom Crean.

According to the Yahoo! Sports report, emails surfaced from Dawkins to his boss saying Chuck Martin would be willing to make a deal pushing former Hoosier players Thomas Bryant and OG Anunoby to the agency in exchange for Brian Bowen’s commitment to Indiana.

Bowen would ultimately sign with Louisville before the scandal broke and then left for South Carolina.

Frank Martin said that it’s typically the job of an assistant coach to talk to agents, but he doesn’t think Chuck Martin would be involved, saying any coach that’d venture into that gray area “won’t be with me very long.”

“Chuck’s a man of family; Chuck’s a man of value, a man of character,” Frank Martin said. “Oklahoma City wouldn’t have hired him, Tom Crean wouldn’t have hired him and I wouldn’t have hired him. Chuck’s a good man; Chuck’s not in the middle of this in any way shape or form. I don’t care what’s reported.”

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The entire FBI case revolves around agents paying players and steering them toward certain schools with the idea the player would sign with the agents once they made the transition to professional basketball.

Martin, who’s recruited college basketball for a while and has had dealings with agents, doesn’t mess, he said, with that side dealing with paying for players because he’s one of the “biggest anti-agent coach in the business.”

“I don’t mess with agents. I don’t care for agents,” he said. “I don’t like how they operate; I don’t care for what they stand for. I have one and I don’t get along with mine. That tells you how much I don’t like agents.”