NCAA announces new sports betting allegations for 13 former men's basketball players from six schools

On Wednesday, the NCAA announced the permanent eligibility revocation of three Division I basketball players for betting on their own games. Now, the NCAA revealed it is pursuing additional sports gambling investigations into 13 former men’s basketball players from six different colleges in a release on Thursday.

While not naming the alleged violators, the NCAA identified that the 13 former student-athletes were previously associated with Arizona State, Eastern Michigan, Temple, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley State. These additional cases are in various stages of the investigation process, per the NCAA, but the schools above are not alleged to be implicated in any of the investigations.

“The NCAA is releasing this information at this point in the process because of the extensive public reporting regarding these cases,” the NCAA release said Thursday. “The NCAA will not publicly name the involved student-athletes until the infractions process has concluded. None of them are enrolled at their previous NCAA schools.”

Thursday’s NCAA release explained that “while the facts and alleged behaviors in each case vary, they include student-athletes betting on and against their own teams, sharing information with third parties for the purposes of sports betting, knowingly manipulating scoring or game outcomes and/or refusing to participate in the NCAA enforcement staff’s investigation.”

Fresno State, San Jose State men’s basketball players lose eligibility in sports betting scandal

On Wednesday, the NCAA announced it has permantently revoked the remaining collegiate eligibility for Fresno State men’s basketball players Mykell Robinson and Jalen Weaver, as well as San Jose State‘s Steve Vasquez, for their participation in a coordinated sports gambling operation in which they “bet on their own games, one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so during the 2024-25 regular season,” according to Wednesday’s NCAA release.

NCAA enforcement began its original investigation into the aforementioned three now-former student-athletes after being notified by Fresno State and a sports betting integrity monitor about suspicious prop bets placed on Robinson, with the NCAA staff uncovering all three student-athletes shared information about individual betting lines for the purposes of manipulating outcomes to win their prop bets.

The enforcement staff became aware of unusual betting activities involving regular-season men’s basketball games in which the above-mentioned programs participated in through the organization’s extensive integrity monitoring program and a network of sources. Upon following up, the organization was able to substantiate many of these alleged violations through, in some cases, with text or direct messages on social media platforms.

“The NCAA monitors over 22,000 contests every year and will continue to aggressively pursue competition integrity risks such as these,” NCAA president Charlie Baker said in the release Thursday. “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.”