NCAA investigates former basketball athletes for alleged sports betting violations
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has begun investigating allegations into 13 former athletes.
US.- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has has begun investigating allegations against 13 former men’s basketball athletes from six universities for potential sports betting violations. The allegations vary and include student-athletes betting on and against their own teams, sharing information with third parties, manipulating outcomes and/or refusing to participate in the investigation.
The cases include student-athletes formerly associated with Eastern Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley. The NCAA Committee on Infractions has resolved three similar cases, concluding that three men’s basketball student-athletes violated sports betting rules and manipulated outcomes. The schools and staffs are not alleged to have been involved, and the enforcement staff is not seeking penalties for the universities.
The NCAA will not publicly name the involved student-athletes until the process has concluded.
NCAA president Charlie Baker stated: “The NCAA monitors over 22,000 contests every year and will continue to aggressively pursue competition integrity risks such as these. I am grateful for the NCAA enforcement team’s relentless work and for the schools’ cooperation in these matters. The rise of sports betting is creating more opportunity for athletes across sports to engage in this unacceptable behavior, and while legalized sports betting is here to stay, regulators and gaming companies can do more to reduce these integrity risks by eliminating prop bets and giving sports leagues a seat at the table when setting policies.”
