The University of South Carolina received a subpoena in September from a federal grand jury in New York seeking all documents, communications and evidence “regarding actual or potential NCAA rules violations” in the men’s basketball program.

The subpoena came as part of an ongoing probe by the United States Department of Justice into alleged bribery in college basketball. The probe has entangled some of the sport's high-profile programs in a controversy that involves alleged payouts to assistant coaches, recruits and players.

The subpoena was issued Sept. 26, the same day the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York announced charges in its widespread undercover investigation. The university had until Oct. 17 to comply with the subpoena and turn over records.

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Former Clemson player and Adidas employee Merl Code and former South Carolina assistant Lamont Evans were among those indicted in the probe.

The subpoena was obtained by The Greenville News via the state’s Freedom of Information Act and sought “any and all documents and communications regarding actual or potential NCAA rules violations relating to the receipt of money, travel, in-kind benefits, or services by players and coaches for the University of South Carolina men’s basketball team.”

The university has complied with the subpoena and is continuing to cooperate with the FBI investigation, said USC spokesman Jeff Stensland.

Evans faces up to 80 years in prison if convicted of charges that include conspiracy to commit bribery, unlawfully accepting property, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and defrauding the United States.

Evans was an assistant under South Carolina head coach Frank Martin from 2012-2016 when he left for a job at Oklahoma State University. A number of the incidents spelled out in the charging documents were alleged to have occurred while Evans was at South Carolina.

The grand jury also sought communications between South Carolina employees or officers, communications with the NCAA and any non-privileged material materiel from any NCAA or internal investigations.

The subpoena also sought communications between any member of the men’s basketball coaching staff or athletic department and a parent of any current or former member of the basketball team beginning Jan. 1, 2014.

The grand jury also demanded communications between USC basketball staff or coaches and three of ten men who have been charged in the case; former NBA agent Christian Dawkins, or financial advisers Martin Blazer and Munish Sood.

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In addition, the subpoena sought Evans’ personnel file and his NCAA certification forms.

It also sought any certification forms and student athlete statements for any current or former members of the men’s basketball program dating back to Jan. 1, 2014 and any communication about those forms.

Finally, it sought any information about financial aid, including scholarships, for current or former members of the men’s basketball program dating back to Jan. 1, 2014.

The grand jury’s requests were substantial in scope. It sought emails and text messages from any devices, including personal devices, pagers, tablets, computers, personal emails, cloud storage and messaging or social media accounts. It goes so far as to ask for any handwritten notes from employees or university board members.

In a statement following Evans’ arrest, South Carolina Athletics Director Ray Tanner said the university was not the target of the probe and it didn’t involve any other men’s basketball personnel besides Evans.

That has not changed, Stensland said.

"We have received no information to indicate that any current or former member of the USC staff is involved in the federal investigation, other than the previously identified former assistant coach, Lamont Evans," Stensland said in an emailed response to questions.

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Tanner said the university would hire a third-party investigator to collaboratively investigate the basketball program alongside the federal investigation and in coordination with the NCAA.

USC has hired Bond, Schoeneck and King, a New York-based law firm that specializes in collegiate sports and NCAA compliance, to conduct an independent third-party review related to the federal investigation, Stensland said.

"The Athletics Department has an extensive education and monitoring program and conducts regular training sessions with coaches and student athletes on NCAA rules," Stensland said. "Our efforts have been praised and we expect this review to reaffirm that once again."

The grand jury also sought communications from Evans while he was at Oklahoma State, and it subpoenaed the University of Arizona, Auburn University and the University of Southern California, according to the Los Angeles Times. All of the universities have had former assistant coaches tied to the scandal.

The subpoenas to each university appear similar, seeking much the same type of information from coaches and communications between coaches and others tied to the scandal.

The subpoena the South Carolina was issued Sept. 26, the same day the FBI announced charges and made arrests of many of the suspects.

Two head coaches – former Louisville coach Rick Pitino and Miami coach Jim Larranaga – also had received subpoenas, they have said.

Evans, then an assistant coach at South Carolina, was indicted on charges that he accepted $22,000 in bribes to direct basketball players to agents or financial advisers. In court records, Evans was alleged to have worked with Sood and Dawkins as well as the FBI’s undercover cooperating witness who has been identified as Blazer.

The four met at a restaurant near the South Carolina campus on March 3, 2016 to discuss a then current USC player identified in records only as “Player-3,” according to charging documents.

Dawkins said that paying Evans help them sign “Player-3” as a client and also sign “five (Player-3s) down the line,” according to court records.

“You’ve got to get in bed with somebody like (Evans),” Dawkins said, “so you got complete access to a kid, because if a coach says nobody can come around, can’t nobody (expletive) come around.”

Evans left South Carolina in April 2016 for a job as associate head coach at Oklahoma State, where he was paid a $600,000 salary before he turned himself in on Sept. 27 in Oklahoma City and was fired Sept. 28 from Oklahoma State.

Evans, Code and six others were indicted Nov. 7 in Manhattan. Also indicted were former USC assistant Tony Bland, former Auburn assistant Chuck Person, former Arizona assistant Emanuel “Book” Richardson, clothier Rashan Michel and Dawkins.

All have pleaded not guilty.

Two others initially charged – Sood and Florida youth basketball coach Brad Augustine – haven’t been indicted.