{"id":273273,"date":"2025-11-09T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:14:10","slug":"college-basketballs-fbi-gambling-probe-looms-large-club-sportico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273273\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball’s FBI Gambling Probe Looms Large: Club Sportico"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis week\u2019s\u00a0Club Sportico<\/a><\/a>\u00a0focuses on a series of sports betting investigations underway in college basketball<\/a>, ones that could impact dozens of athletes at numerous D-I schools.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew U.S. gambling scandals seem to be popping daily, and the two most recent\u2014ones involving the NBA and UFC\u2014have something specific in common: both involved FBI<\/a> investigators. If the federal government has decided that it cares about bet-rigging in U.S. sports, then college basketball is likely facing a whirlwind of allegations and discovery that could upend programs and impact fans.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s easy to see why college hoops might be particularly susceptible to sports betting fraud. Especially at the sport\u2019s mid and lower tiers, athletes receive little compensation with few prospects for a lucrative pro career. There are far more teams than in college football, and much smaller rosters, so individual players have an outsized impact on the potential outcome of games. College students are generally less mature than their pro counterparts, and may be more susceptible to manipulation by criminals. Smaller schools also have far fewer resources to dedicate toward athlete education and compliance.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere is an excerpt of the latest Club Sportico\u00a0essay<\/a>\u00a0\u270d\ufe0f:<\/p>\n

\n\tThe breadcrumbs are all over. In September the NCAA<\/a> announced it was investigating\u00a013 players<\/a>\u00a0from six schools\u2014Arizona State \ud83d\udd31, Temple \ud83e\udd89, Eastern Michigan \ud83e\udd85, New Orleans \ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f, North Carolina A&T \ud83d\udc36 and Mississippi Valley State \ud83d\udc79\u2014for potential gambling violations.\u00a0A few weeks ago, in a statement responding to the NBA\u2019s bet-rigging latest, the governing body said its enforcement staff had opened investigations into \u201capproximately 30\u201d current or former men\u2019s basketball players. Then, on Friday, the NCAA announced the results of some of those probes, with six players<\/a> being deemed permanently ineligible.<\/p>\n

\n\tFeds are also on the case. Some of the same people caught in the FBI\u2019s NBA probe are also linked to suspicious college betting. And according to\u00a0ESPN<\/a>, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is investigating allegations of point shaving in college basketball.\u00a0Point shaving.\u00a0That\u2019s the nightmare scenario for NCAA president Charlie Baker<\/a> and others in college sports, even if it comes out at a smaller D-I school like New Orleans.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe NCAA, which would obviously be well aware of any federal probe, has also been ringing other alarm bells for more than a year. The Indianapolis-based organization has\u00a0pushed state lawmakers<\/a>\u2014occasionally successfully\u2014to ban prop bets in college sports, and has been\u00a0increasingly outspoken<\/a>\u00a0about the toll that the industry has on athletes via online abuse and mental health challenges.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a 2023 survey of athletes, the NCAA found that 25% of \u201cPower Five\u201d conference athletes and 10% of D-I athletes were aware of harassment from people with gambling interests.<\/p>\n

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You can read and subscribe to\u00a0Club Sportico\u00a0here<\/a>. Existing\u00a0Sportico\u00a0subscribers have free access to\u00a0Club Sportico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s\u00a0Club Sportico\u00a0focuses on a series of sports betting investigations underway in college basketball, ones that could impact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,158746,158747,724,7810,704,85],"class_list":["post-273273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-charlie-baker","tag-club-sportico","tag-college-basketball","tag-fbi","tag-ncaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}