NCAA announces former Temple basketball player Hysier Miller made sports bets on, against Owls

The NCAA Committee on Infractions declared former Temple and Virginia Tech guard Hysier Miller permanently ineligible after he was found to have bet for and against his own team, according to a release Friday afternoon. The NCAA alleges Miller placed 42 bets totaling $473 on parlays that included 23 Temple games between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, including three bets against his own team.

The NCAA COI also cited a pair of former Owls staffers, former special assistant to the head coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond, for participating in gambling on Temple games, though unrelated to Miller’s activities. This is part of the NCAA’s widespread investigation into illegal sports gambling in college basketball that allegedly involves more than a dozen former men’s basketball players from Arizona State, Eastern Michigan, Temple, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley State.

According to the NCAA release, a sports integrity monitoring service notified NCAA enforcement staff of concerning betting activities related to Temple men’s basketball games. That prompted an investigation that identified Bond, Miller and Wynter, though there’s no evidence they colluded with one another.

Miller admitted to placing 39 impermissible parlay bets on Temple men’s basketball games and an additional three bets against the Owls between Nov. 7, 2022-March 2, 2024, totaling $473. During his interview with NCAA enforcement staff, Miller confirmed the bets for Temple but claimed he didn’t remember betting against his team. The 6-foot-1 Miller was “permanently released” from Virginia Tech in October 2024 after he was connected to illegal gambling activities from his time at Temple, where he averaged 15.9 points per game for the Owls during the 2023-24 season.

Meanwhile, the NCAA found Bond placed 546 impermissible bets over two years totaling $5,597 on professional and collegiate sporting events, including $200 on college football and basketball, though no bets were found to be on Temple games. Bond received a one-year show-cause penalty, which severely restricts any NCAA school from hiring him during that span, and a suspension of 10% of games should he be hired during his show-cause order.

Similarly, Wynter was found to have placed at least 52 impermissible bets across a five-month period in 2023, totaling approximately $9,642 on both pro and collegiate sports. That included $1,923 on college football, though no bets were found to be on Temple athletic contests. Wynter also received a one-year show-cause order.

NCAA announces infractions decisions on six former men’s college basketball players from sports betting investigation

The NCAA Committee on Infractions issued three separate decisions on Nov. 7 following investigations that uncovered widespread sports betting violations. It involves six former men’s basketball student-athletes from New Orleans, Mississippi Valley State and Arizona State.

According to the NCAA, while the cases at each school were not directly connected, all involved betting-related game manipulation and/or players providing information to known bettors. Each case also included a lack of cooperation during the investigation, as the student-athletes knowingly provided false or misleading information to enforcement staff.

As a result, all six players were found in violation of the NCAA’s ethical conduct rules, triggering permanent ineligibility. The individuals involved were identified as Cedquavious Hunter (New Orleans), Dyquavian Short (New Orleans), Jamond Vincent (New Orleans), Donovan Sanders (Mississippi Valley), Alvin Stredic (Mississippi Valley) and Chatton “BJ” Freeman (Arizona State). None of the players remain enrolled at their previous institutions.

— On3’s Steve Samra contributed to this report.