Federal enforcement authorities are playing full-court press against some of the biggest names in the world of college basketball, scoring federal criminal charges last week in a massive fraud and corruption scheme that threatens to rock the compliance world at large and could be one of the largest compliance crises to face American collegiate sports.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...