Several officials disciplined for accessing unauthorized info

Several college basketball officials have been disciplined for accessing unauthorized information from refereeing software website BlueZebraSports.com, according to Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com.

The report indicates that the login information for the site, whose clientele includes multiple Division I college basketball conferences, was compromised and became available to several officials, including prominent Big Ten official Bo Boroski.

The officials in question were able to access secure information like game schedules and compensation of other officials.

Bradley Batt, the owner of BlueZebra Sports, sent a letter to his clients in which he revealed that certain clients abused their access as administrators of their own websites and "manipulated our system in a malicious manner to gain access to the sites of coordinators for whom they worked."

Boroski, who officiated in the most recent NCAA tournament, and in the Big Ten tournament semifinals each of the past two years, will not be assigned games in the league this season because of the violations, according to sources in the report.

"They manipulated our system in a malicious manner to gain access to the sites of coordinators for whom they worked," Batt wrote in the letter to his clients. "We did not expect to have to guard against malicious behavior of our own clients who were also coordinators of other conferences.

"Our next step was to contact the coordinators and conferences whose information was improperly accessed. We provided them reports with full disclosure of what happened and what was accessed. In addition, we terminated our agreements with both clients who abused the system to access information in an unauthorized manner."