NCAA Sports Betting Probe Involves 13 College Basketball Players From Six Universities
Posted on: September 11, 2025, 02:47h.
Last updated on: September 11, 2025, 02:52h.
- The NCAA is investigating 13 former men’s basketball players
- The probe is regarding possible sports betting violations
The NCAA is investigating whether former men’s college basketball players at six schools violated the organization’s sports betting regulations.
In a media release on Thursday, the NCAA confirmed that 13 former men’s basketball student-athletes are being probed on allegations of sports betting rules and/or failure to cooperate violations. The players involved have all since been dismissed by their colleges or voluntarily left, the NCAA said.
The men’s hoops teams included in the sports betting review include Eastern Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T, and Mississippi Valley. All compete in NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball. The NCAA release comes a day after the organization revoked the eligibility of three men’s basketball players at Fresno State and San Jose State.
The NCAA said Mykell Robinson, Steven Vasquez, and Jalen Weaver were released from their respective teams and are no longer enrolled at their universities after an investigation determined that they “bet on their own games, one another’s games, and/or provided information that enabled others to do so.” Two of the three were also accused of manipulating their performances to ensure that certain sports bets won.
Sports Betting Allegations
The NCAA alleges an array of sports betting violations against the baker’s dozen of former college basketball players. The alleged infractions include betting on and against their teams, sharing information with third parties for the purpose of sports gambling, knowingly manipulating scoring and game outcomes, and refusing to comply with the NCAA enforcement staff’s investigation.
The NCAA release cleared school coaches and nonplayer personnel of any wrongdoing and isn’t pursuing penalties for the schools themselves.
“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,” said NCAA President Charlie Baker.
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,” Baker continued.
Baker has encouraged state gaming regulators and lawmakers to ban prop bets involving college players. Such bets rely heavily on a single player’s performance.
Baker’s opposition to player props is twofold. The NCAA believes props subject players to being targeted by outside, rogue influences who might throw money at players for them to throw a game. Props are also thought to increase student-athlete harassment, with the abuse often levied online via social media and peer-to-peer payment services like PayPal and Venmo.
Constant Monitoring
The NCAA, like the big four — the NFL, MLB, the NBA, and the NHL — has processes in place to continually monitor betting activity for suspicious patterns. But with the NCAA sanctioning 23 sports across three divisions, the task is considerable.
The NCAA and its member conferences leverage various integrity monitoring services from companies like Integrity Compliance 360 and Sportradar to keep close tabs on suspicious wagering and line movements.
Last Comments ( 2 )
When you have individual props it allows the player to be bought. A team may be able to overcome the greedy thug’s play but integrity is gone. A pitcher who throws a ball away will sooner or later throw a game
I think what these athletes are accused of doing is not only against NCAA rules but also against fraud laws too.