The NCAA is investigating the potential violations of sports betting rules involving 13 former male basketball players who have contributed to six schools.
Cases include athletes formerly associated with eastern Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and the Mississippi Valley. Schools are not under survey or are not likely to be penalized.
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The NCAA integrity surveillance program and the network of sources have reported text messages and direct messages on social media platforms and have revealed unusual Paris activities around regular season games. Violations include Paris students on and against their own teams, sharing information with third parties for sports betting, rating or results handling and / or refusing to participate in the survey.
“The Arizona State University is aware of the survey and the results of the NCAA linked to a former student-athlete who is no longer registered with the ASU,” the school said in a statement. “The university has cooperated fully with all requests and has not been involved in any way.”
The NCAA infractions committee resolved three similar casesConcluding that three student male basketball students who played for Fresno State and San Jose State violated the NCAA rules against sports betting and manipulated game results. In the case involving Fresno State and San Jose State, the application survey concluded that Mykell Robinson, Steven Vasquez and Jalen Weaver have bet on the games of each other and / or provided information that allowed others to do so last season. Two have manipulated their performance to ensure winning bets. Their eligibility was permanently revoked.
The NCAA said that it would not name athletes in the six cases after the investigation. None of them are registered in their previous NCAA schools.
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“NCAA is monitoring more than 22,000 competitions each year and will continue to pursue the risks of competition integrity as they,” said NCAA president Charlie Baker, in a statement. “I am grateful for the relentless work of the NCAA application team and for the cooperation of schools in these questions.”
Baker said that the rise in sports betting created more likely to commit violations.
“While legalized sports betting are there to stay, regulators and play companies can do more to reduce these risks of integrity by eliminating propeller bets and giving sports leagues a seat at the table when defining policies,” he said.
