Auburn, Ala. ? Auburn’s basketball program was put on two years’ probation Tuesday, with the NCAA cutting one scholarship but clearing the university of major rules violations.

Auburn was exonerated of accusations involving large sums of money and expensive cars given to high school prospects Chadd Moore and Jackie Butler. But the NCAA found that an AAU coach, Mark Komara, was acting as a representative of Auburn when he arranged to wire $3,125 for Butler and get a 1996 Dodge Stratus for Moore.

Komara is believed to be the first summer-league basketball coach designated a representative of a school, said Thomas Yeager, chairman of the NCAA’s Division One Committee on Infractions.

The university, which denied the major accusations, already had imposed its own penalties, including the loss of one scholarship for the 2004-05 season. The NCAA cut that scholarship for 2005-06, too, but did not ban postseason play or televised games.