Tennessee said men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes inadvertently committed a minor NCAA violation by paying money out of his own pocket to supplement the salary of one of his assistant coaches.

Barnes provided personal funds to assistant coach Desmond Oliver because he believed Oliver’s salary was deficient in relation to what his peers were making. School officials said Barnes was unware NCAA rules prohibited him from supplementing an assistant’s pay with personal funds.

Barnes was told to stop and that the assistant would get a raise.

Barnes received rules education and got no additional punishment. The Southeastern Conference didn’t impose any additional penalty.

UConn will pay more: Facing a wide-ranging and potentially costly inquiry into possible recruiting violations in its men’s program, Connecticut has increased the maximum amount it will pay the outside law firm that advises the school on NCAA matters.

Last April, the state signed a three-year contract with Lightfoot, Franklin & White of Birmingham, Ala., to provide a broad array of legal consulting services on NCAA-compliance matters at UConn, with a cap of $100,000.

In December, the contract was amended to increase the maximum payment to $250,000.

Krzyzewskiville closed: Duke’s famed Krzyzewskiville will be a ghost town for a while because of flu concerns.

School officials said students in the makeshift tent village outside Cameron Indoor Stadium received an indefinite grace period to leave and return to their dorms. In a letter sent to parents, the school said it has “elected to take a cautious approach” to the situation but hopes to have Krzyzewskiville back to normal soon.

It’s a tradition at Duke for students to camp out in tents to claim the best seats for the North Carolina game, which will be played March 3 this season . Unless a grace period is announced, students must be present in the tents both day and night.

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