•  March 2011: Shapiro informs the NCAA for first time of his claims that he gave gifts and cash payments to UM players and coaches. The NCAA launches an investigation.

•  June 2011: Shapiro is sentenced to 20 years in prison for a Ponzi scheme.

•  Second week of August 2011: UM is informed that it is being investigated.

•  Aug. 15, 2011: NCAA investigators visit UM’s campus for the first time since Shapiro made his allegations.

•  Aug. 16, 2011: Yahoo Sports reports Shapiro gave improper benefits to 72 players and several coaches.

•  Aug. 30, 2011: The NCAA suspends eight players for taking benefits from Shapiro: Olivier Vernon (six games); Ray-Ray Armstrong and Dyron Dye (four each); and Travis Benjamin, Marcus Forston, Jacory Harris, Adewale Ojomo and Sean Spence (one game each).

•  November 2011: UM, with a 6-5 record at the time, announces it is self-imposing a bowl ban.

•  December 2011: Allen gives a deposition in Shapiro’s bankruptcy case to the convicted schemer’s attorney, Maria Elena Perez. Allen says he tells the truth because he knows he is under oath. NCAA officials learn of his deposition, discovering that it is strikingly different from his statements to investigators. Allen later meets again with the NCAA, saying he will come clean on everything.

•  December 2011: UM agrees to pay $83,000 to Shapiro’s bankruptcy trustee to ensure that the trustee does not try to recoup money from any current or former Hurricanes athletes.

•  Feb. 22, 2012: UM basketball player Reggie Johnson is suspended one game because former assistant coach Jorge Fernandez used his frequent flyer miles to pay for a plane ticket for Johnson’s mother.

•  March 14, 2012: UM basketball player Durand Scott is suspended for six games for receiving impermissible travel benefits from a former member of Frank Haith’s staff.

•  Nov. 11, 2012: The NCAA mails a letter to numerous former players telling them they have a Nov. 23 deadline to speak to the NCAA, and if they do not, the NCAA will conclude that they have committed violations. Several players agree to speak; many others do not.

•  Nov. 19, 2012: UM announces it is self-imposing a bowl ban for the second consecutive season.

•  Jan. 23: The NCAA announces that former NCAA enforcement staff members worked with Nevin Shapiro’s attorney to improperly obtain information for the purposes of the NCAA investigation. The NCAA says it will commission an external review of the enforcement program and won’t deliver UM’s notice of allegations until it is completed.

•  Feb. 18: The NCAA says the case involving the University of Miami will continue — just without about 20 percent of the information it deemed tainted because of its own “improper conduct” during the investigation.

•  Feb. 19: The University of Miami receives its Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.