ATHENS, Ga. -- University of Georgia officials are looking into further allegations of improprieties in the men's basketball program, this time involving a high school recruit.

Officials are investigating charges that Ernest Shanks, Jr., a Colquitt County High School guidance counselor, asked a student to take the SAT exam for Georgia basketball recruit Alexander Johnson.

Shanks resigned from his position on Dec. 11 after acknowledging he had a role in giving the student $50 -- with the promise of at least $300 more if Johnson went on to a professional basketball career.

"We want to know if there's any connection between this effort to falsify a test and any of the university staff,'' said Athens attorney Ed Tolley, who is heading a joint school and NCAA investigation into allegations of wrongdoing by coach Jim Harrick and former assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr.

The investigation began on Feb. 27 when former player Tony Cole accused the two of academic fraud and unethical conduct. That information led to the suspension of Harrick, the dismissal of Harrick Jr. and the removal of the team from the SEC and NCAA tournaments.

"It goes without saying because of that information the University of Georgia is no longer recruiting that athlete,'' Tolley told the Athens Banner-Herald.

Johnson, now at Bridgton Academy prep school in Maine, said Friday he knew nothing about the incident.