NCAA investigates 13 former basketball players for sports betting violations

The NCAA is studying prospective violations of sports betting rules involving former men s basketball players who completed for six schools Cases include athletes formerly associated with Eastern Michigan Temple Arizona State New Orleans North Carolina A T and Mississippi Valley The schools are not under inquiry and are not at menace of being penalized The NCAA s integrity monitoring initiative and framework of sources flagged text messages and direct messages on social media platforms and revealed distinctive betting initiatives around regular-season games The violations include student-athletes betting on and against their own teams sharing information with third parties for purposes of sports betting manipulating scoring or outcomes and or refusing to participate in the probe The NCAA Committee on Infractions has resolved three similar cases concluding that three men s basketball student-athletes who played for Fresno State and San Jose State violated the NCAA s rules against sports betting and manipulated match outcomes In the episode involving Fresno State and San Jose State the enforcement inspection concluded that Mykell Robinson Steven Vasquez and Jalen Weaver bet on one another s games and or provided information that enabled others to do so last season Two manipulated their performances to ensure winning bets Their eligibility was permanently revoked The NCAA revealed it will not name the athletes in the six cases until after the analysis None of them are enrolled at their previous NCAA schools The NCAA monitors over contests every year and will continue to aggressively pursue competition integrity risks such as these NCAA President Charlie Baker stated in a comment I am grateful for the NCAA enforcement unit s relentless work and for the schools cooperation in these matters Baker disclosed the rise of sports betting is creating more chances to commit violations 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 he noted Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top throughout the season Sign up here and here AP mobile app AP college basketball https apnews com hub ap-top- -college-basketball-poll and https apnews com hub college-basketball Source