By WEB STAFF

SAN DIEGO, CA (KGTV) -- Former San Diego State University basketball player and coach Tony Bland, now an assistant coach at the University of Southern California, is one of the college basketball coaches accused by federal prosecutors Tuesday of taking bribes as part of a wide-ranging NCAA corruption scheme believed to involve Adidas.

Federal prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in the southern district of New York formally announced the charges. Bland is one of 10 people charged on federal counts that include wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

According to a partially unsealed criminal complaint, those who are charged include the four coaches as well as managers, financial advisors and representatives from a "major international sportswear company," believed to be Adidas.

Among those arrested was Adidas' director of global sports marketing James "Jim" Gatto.

The defendants are alleged to have set up a scheme in which star basketball players were paid large sums of money -- illegal under NCAA rules -- in order for them to attend certain universities. The coaches who were part of the scheme would receive a payment, and the player would be expected to hire the managers and financial advisors upon turning professional.

One such scheme paid a player $150,000 to attend a university sponsored by the sportswear company, according to the criminal complaint.

The assistant coaches and associate head coaches named in the complaint were Bland, Lamont Evans of Oklahoma State, Chuck Person of Auburn University and Emanuel "Book Richardson of the University of Arizona.

Bland was an assistant coach at SDSU for four years from 2009 to 2013 before he left for a similar assistant coaching role at USC. Bland, whose duties for the Aztecs included recruiting players, was at SDSU for the Aztecs' most successful basketball seasons in program history. He helped coach the Aztecs to the NCAA Tournament during all four of his years as an assistant, including their first-ever run to the Sweet 16 in the 2011 NCAA Tournament as the team finished the season 34-3.

As a player, Tony Bland helped lead the Aztecs to the NCAA Tournament in the early years of Steve Fisher's head coaching tenure. He later became an assistant coach and successful recruiter under Fisher.

Bland left SDSU in 2013 to become associate head coach at USC. At USC, Bland was promoted in 2014 to associate head coach -- second in command to head coach Andy Enfield -- and has helped build the Trojans' basketball program from a perennial loser into a national power.

"One of Bland's many talents is that of being an elite recruiter and the Trojans have brought in top 20 classes nationally since his arrival," read his biography on the USC athletics website.

As a player, Bland transferred to SDSU after two years at Syracuse University. In the 2000-2001 season, the Los Angeles-native helped lead the team to a Mountain West Conference tournament championship and the school's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1985. As a senior in the 2001-2002 season, Bland was a team co-captain and earned second-team all-conference honors.