— North Carolina State received a grand jury subpoena in January to turn over records to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a school spokesman confirmed Friday evening.

Fred Demarest, NC State's senior associate athletic director, said the subpoena is for records only and not a request to speak with anyone at NC State. He said the university received the request Jan. 17.

Demarest said first-year head coach Kevin Keatts and the rest of his staff did not know about the subpoena.

“NC State's General Counsel was informed by the Southern District Court of New York that the subpoena was confidential and did not inform basketball staff about the request," Demarest told WRAL News. "Coach Keatts was not contacted about and did not know of the subpoena when he addressed the issue in February.”

Keatts said in early February that he didn't have "many concerns at all about NC State" when asked about a previous Yahoo report that hinted at the size and scope of the federal investigation.

Keatts became NC State's head coach last spring after Yow fired Mark Gottfried.

"I have no reason to believe at all that we have anything to do with any FBI or anything. Obviously, I wasn't here, but we don't have on our end, from a school standpoint or basketball, we don't have red flags or any concerns at all," Keatts said. "I did read the article. I don't know how much to take away from it. We're fine on our end."

The news of NC State receiving the subpoena is the latest bit of information to seep out amid a federal investigation into college hoops.

The first blow to the sport came in September, when an investigation revealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks being funneled to influence recruits.

In a Yahoo Sports report last month, documents from the federal probe showed more than two dozen players and their relatives possibly received a wide range of impermissible benefits, from meals to five-figure payments.

The documents describe potential impermissible benefits and preferential treatment for players and families at some of the biggest schools on the college basketball scene, including Duke, NC State and UNC, Yahoo reported.

The documents point to sports agency ASM Sports, agent Andy Miller and in particular Christian Dawkins, 25, who, ESPN reported in October, is facing money laundering charges linked to his relationships with high school basketball players. Dawkins was among 10 people arrested last year when the federal probe began.

In a balance sheet belonging to ASM, former NC State player Dennis Smith Jr. was listed under the subheading, "Loan to Players," with an amount of $43,500. Another document says Smith received a total of $73,500 in loans, and indicated options to recoup the money after Smith didn't sign with ASM.

In September, the Justice Department arrested 10 people, including assistant coaches from Arizona, Southern California, Auburn and Oklahoma State.

The federal investigation alleged bribes and kickbacks were used to influence star players' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, tailors. Payments of up to $150,000, supplied by Adidas, were promised to at least three top high school recruits to attend two schools sponsored by the shoe company, according to federal prosecutors.