OXFORD ― The seemingly endless list of things outlawed by the NCAA includes decorative balloons, a group of Ole Miss basketball managers learned in September.

Managers decorated a prospective recruit's hotel room with Ole Miss-themed balloons in one of four minor NCAA violations self-reported by Ole Miss between May 1, 2023 and Jan. 16, 2024.

According to a document obtained by the Clarion Ledger via open-records request, those impermissible balloons marked one of two violations related to Ole Miss men's basketball recruiting.

The second violation also was reported in September, when the Ole Miss coaching staff provided four separate recruits with binders and sheet protectors containing photos from their official visits. Compliance staffers informed the coaches that the photos of the visit "were not allowed to be bound as they were."

In both instances, the Ole Miss staff was provided with rules education and reminders on acceptable recruiting practices. The Rebels' total of permitted recruiting contacts for the involved student-athletes was reduced by one as a result.

Ole Miss football also self-reported a minor violation in September, when a first-year junior college prospect who was not an NCAA qualifier took an unofficial visit and made contact with the Rebels' coaching staff. The corresponding Ole Miss coach did not verify with the compliance office that the prospect was an NCAA qualifier, the document says. NCAA qualifiers are prospective athletes who have met the requirements to be eligible to compete and practice at the Division I level.

In response, Ole Miss took several actions related to that prospect's recruitment, including prohibiting contact with the athlete for 30 days, barring the involved coach from off-campus recruiting activities for 30 days and reducing Ole Miss' evaluation days for the 2023-24 academic year by two. It also reworked its policy for verifying the NCAA eligibility of recruits.

The most recently reported violation occurred in October. A recruit was visible in the background of a weekly show produced by the Ole Miss production team. The team told compliance it would blur out the recruit, but the footage was posted on social media for 48 hours with the recruit visible before it was removed and edited.

That violation led to rules education for the production team and football staff.

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David Eckert covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at deckert@gannett.com or reach him on Twitter @davideckert98.

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