— Current and former players from the basketball programs at Duke, North Carolina and NC State were all named in evidence presented during discovery in the federal criminal investigation into college basketball, according to a report Friday by Yahoo Sports.

Yahoo obtained "hundreds of pages of documents" that showed federal authorities monitored multiple targets and intercepted more than 4,400 phone calls over 330 days.

"The documents tie some of the biggest names and programs in the sport to activity that appears to violate the NCAA’s amateurism rules," Yahoo reported. "This could end up casting a pall over the NCAA tournament because of eligibility issues."

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 Yahoo released Friday 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.

Smith, who was North Carolina’s Gatorade Player of the Year at 1A Trinity Christian, played a single season in Raleigh before being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in 2017.

"(The balance sheet) listed several (players) who were in high school or college as receiving four-figure and five-figure payments from ASM Sports," Yahoo reported. Listed loan values ranged from about $100 to more than $50,000.

NC State Director of Athletics Debbie Yow released a statement Friday morning in response to the report.

"We learned of this report this morning and it is the first we've heard about this information," Yow said in her statement. "The report involves an agent NC State disassociated with in 2012. Of course, we will fully cooperate with any investigations or inquiries."

NC State also released the disassociation letter it sent to Miller in September 2012.

NC State head coach Kevin Keatts had a media availability Friday afternoon, but he wouldn't comment about the report other than to point people to Yow's statement.

Keatts said 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 tak away from it. We're fine on our end."

Another document, identified as an expense report filed by Dawkins details plane tickets and meals provided to current and former college basketball players paid for by Dawkins.

Included are $106 for lunch with the mother of Wendell Carter Jr., a Duke freshman forward who has appeared in 28 games this season, and $100 for dinner with Brice Johnson, a Carolina forward who played on the 2015-16 team that finished second in the NCAA Tournament. Former North Carolina forward Tony Bradley, a freshman on last year's national title team, was also listed by Yahoo as one the players or family members to have a meeting or meal with Dawkins.

UNC basketball spokesman Steve Kirschner said Friday that the school has "no information on what is mentioned in today's Yahoo! story, but we will cooperate fully with any and all investigations."

UNC head coach Roy Williams said last week that he had "mixed emotions" after hearing about Yahoo's report that big-name coaches and programs may be implicated in the federal probe.

"I feel very comfortable. The phone rings at night, I'm not worrying about that. I may worry about a lot of other things, but it's not about that," Williams said.

Duke University Director of Athletics Kevin White released a statement Friday afternoon saying the school had "immediately reviewed the matter" after Yahoo's report.

"Based on the available information, (Duke) determined there are no eligibility issues related to today’s report. Duke has already contacted the NCAA and will continue to work collaboratively with the NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference," White said. "Duke has an uncompromising commitment to compliance in athletics. That has not, and will not, change.”

It's unclear how the NCAA could potentially handle the case as the criminal investigation continues, although some of what's mentioned in Friday's Yahoo report, if proven, would only result in minor NCAA infractions.

The NCAA responded quickly Friday morning to Yahoo's reporting, with President Mark Emmert saying the "allegations, if true, point to systematic failures that must be fixed and fixed now if we want college sports in America."

"Simply put, people who engage in this kind of behavior have no place in college sports. They are an affront to all those who play by the rules," Emmert's statement said.

Emmert went on to highlight the NCAA's Commission on College Basketball, formed last year as a way to "fully examine critical aspects of Division I men's basketball." In short, the commission has been tasked with finding ways to clean up the sport, Emmert said. In his statement Friday, he said the allegations further highlight the need for changes.

"It's clear this work is more important now than ever. The Board and I are completely committed to making transformational changes to the game and ensuring all involved in college basketball do so with integrity," Emmert said. "We also will continue to cooperate with the efforts of federal prosecutors to identify and punish the unscrupulous parties seeking to exploit the system through criminal acts.”

Don Jackson, an Alabama-based attorney who has worked on numerous college eligibility cases, said the root of the problem for the NCAA is that the amateurism model does not work.

"This problem can be solved if players are compensated. This whole issue can be mitigated if players are compensated," Jackson said. "This model of amateurism does not work. The NCAA is not capable of adequately policing tens of thousands of athletes around the country to determine whether or not they have violated the NCAA's model of amateurism.

"We're talking about in some instances kids receiving $30 meals from agents."