Ex-Temple Basketball Player Hysier Miller Bet On His Team To Lose
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Temple guard Hysier Miller placed dozens of bets on Owls video games, consisting of some against his team, the NCAA announced Friday.
The NCAA considered Miller completely ineligible after finding he positioned 42 parlay bets amounting to $473 on Temple games throughout the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of those bets protested his group, the NCAA stated.
Miller began every game for the Owls during those seasons. The NCAA found he used sportsbook accounts coming from other individuals to wager.
The NCAA ´ s enforcement staff spoke with Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, and he confessed to placing parlay bets on Temple games but did not keep in mind putting any bets versus his group, the NCAA said.
His legal representative, Jason P. Bologna, said the NCAA did a "long and extensive investigation" and discovered no evidence that Miller shaved points. "Hysier offered them complete access to his cellular phone and savings account, and he responded to every question they asked him. He confessed to positioning parlay bets, but he rejected shaving points in any video game, and the NCAA ´ s findings validate that they accept Hysier was honest and cooperative with their investigation," Bologna stated in a declaration.
Additionally, previous Temple unique assistant coach Camren Wynter and previous graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were discovered to have actually broken NCAA guidelines by betting on professional and collegiate sports. The NCAA did not discover any bets including Temple by either Wynter or Bond. Both coaches received 1 year, show-cause orders and a suspension of 10% of regular-season contests during their very first year of employment.
FILE - Temple's Hysier Miller dribbles up court against UAB during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the champion of the American Athletic Conference competition, March 17, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
The NCAA did not find the three cases to be connected.
It's the most current betting violation revealed by the NCAA, which revoked the eligibility of 6 guys ´ s college basketball players previously this month as a result of three different sports-betting cases that included a power-conference school in Arizona State and allegations of gamers throwing games to lose by more points than the spread.
That followed almost three dozen individuals being arrested last month, including an NBA gamer and coach, for what federal law enforcement officials referred to as their participation in numerous illegal gambling activities. Just today, UFC President and CEO Dana White stated he was in touch with the FBI regarding a match that included uncommon betting patterns.
For its part, the NCAA said last month it was investigating a minimum of 30 current or former players for gambling allegations. The NCAA likewise banned three college basketball gamers in September for wagering on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State.
The NCAA released a campaign in 2023 prompting state regulators and betting business to get rid of prop bets on college sports from their offerings.
Recently launched findings of a brand-new research study found that 36% of Division I guys's basketball players reported experiencing social media abuse related to sports wagering within the in 2015. There were 29% who reported interaction with a fellow student on school who had actually put a bet on their teams.
Both of those figures were greater than reported by players in the Football Bowl Subdivision, with 16% reporting negative or threatening messages, and 26% connecting with another trainee who had actually wagered on their team.
Get survey notifies and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball