Saying the NCAA has "new information," president Myles Brand promised to investigate former Southern California basketball star O.J. Mayo, who allegedly received thousands of dollars in gifts from money given to an event promoter by a sports agency.

On Sunday, ESPN reported that Bill Duffy Associates provided Rodney Guillory with about $200,000 before Mayo arrived at USC. Louis Johnson, a former associate of Mayo's, told "Outside the Lines" that Mayo received about $30,000 and other benefits from Guillory while in high school and during his one season at USC.

Mayo declared for the NBA Draft after the season and hired BDA Sports' Calvin Andrews as his agent.

Brand, speaking Tuesday in Houston to kick off this week's Division II National Championships Festival, said that "our enforcement division has new information" about Mayo's case "and as a matter of fact, when we have new information on any case, we will investigate."

(The Associated Press)

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N.C. STATE SIGNS JUNIOR COLLEGE TRANSFER: Junior college transfer Inga Muciniece, a 6-foot-5 center, has signed to play women's basketball for N.C. State starting this fall, coach Kay Yow said Tuesday.

Muciniece (Moose-a-KNEE-et-SAY) is from Ventspils, Latvia, and has played the past two seasons at Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kan. As a sophomore, she averaged 10.3 points and a team-leading 11.9 rebounds.

MOUNT OLIVE COACH RETIRES: Bill Clingan, who has guided Mount Olive to the NCAA Tournament in each of the past five seasons, is retiring after 18 seasons as Trojans basketball coach. Associate head coach Joey Higginbotham has been promoted to head coach.

WARREN WILSON HIRES WALDEN: Kevin Walden, assistant coach at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, has been hired as coach and sports information director at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa.

(From College News Releases)