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Komet
Apr 4, 2003

It's time to have a talk about sports betting

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-players-point-shaving-fixing-games-fbi-scandal/

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Federal prosecutors charged 20 people, including several former college basketball players, in an alleged point-shaving scheme, according to an indictment obtained by CBS News. The indictment states that more than 39 college basketball players on at least 17 Division I teams "fixed and attempted to fix" over 29 games.

Seventeen former college basketball players are listed as defendants in the indictment. Fifteen of those players participated in the 2023-24 or 2024-25 seasons. A few have also played this season.

Four of the current players listed in the indictment are Kennesaw State's Simeon Cottle, the preseason Conference USA Player of the Year, Delaware State's Camian Shell, Eastern Michigan's Carlos Hart and Texas Southern's Oumar Koureissi.

Investigators identified Western Michigan, Butler, St. John's, Tulane, East Carolina, McNeese State, Nicholls State, Saint Louis, Duquesne, La Salle, Fordham, Buffalo, Kent State, Ohio, Georgetown and DePaul as the schools affected by the alleged scheme.

According to the indictment, the scheme began in September 2022 and eventually evolved to include college basketball players, who were paid anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 to intentionally compromise games for sports betting purposes.

"In placing these wagers on games they had fixed, the defendants defrauded sportsbooks, as well as individual sports bettors, who were all unaware that the defendants had corruptly manipulated the outcome of these games that should have been decided fairly, based on genuine competition and the best efforts of the players," the indictment said, according to ESPN.

Former New Orleans players Cedquavious Hunter and Dyquavian Short are among the defendants. Hunter and Short were both sanctioned by the NCAA in November after the Committee on Infractions found that they were involved in illegal gambling and/or game-manipulation activity.

"Protecting competition integrity is of the utmost importance for the NCAA," NCAA president Charlie Baker said in a statement regarding Thursday's indictments. "We are thankful for law enforcement agencies working to detect and combat integrity issues and match manipulation in college sports. The pattern of college basketball game integrity conduct revealed by law enforcement today is not entirely new information to the NCAA.

"Through helpful collaboration and with industry regulators, we have finished or have open investigations into almost all of the teams in today's indictment."

The NCAA's investigation also included former Arizona State star BJ Freeman, New Orleans' Jamond Vincent and Mississippi Valley State's Donovan Sanders and Alvin Stredic. The NCAA stated at the time that its six cases were unconnected.

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Jagged Jim
Sep 25, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...
Who could have predicted this would happen?

Freaquency
May 10, 2007

"Yes I can hear you, I don't have ear cancer!"

I have seen an earnest “actually legalized betting is good because it’s making it easier to find the people rigging games” take and it made me roll my eyes so hard that I had to lie down

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

What, you suddenly care about safety now?
Update: DePaul is terrible

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

What, you suddenly care about safety now?
The Bears cheese grater guy just showed up on the DePaul jumbotron and the place went insane

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Poque posted:

The Bears cheese grater guy just showed up on the DePaul jumbotron and the place went insane

I'm glad he hasn't milkshake ducked and the interview with the guy was like "YEAH MY WIFE HELPED ME SMUGGLE IN THE CHEESE"

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

What, you suddenly care about safety now?

facialimpediment posted:

I'm glad he hasn't milkshake ducked and the interview with the guy was like "YEAH MY WIFE HELPED ME SMUGGLE IN THE CHEESE"

He was provided cheese and grater by DePaul employees and he grated it all over some random kid’s head

JesustheDarkLord
May 22, 2006

#VolsDeep
Lipstick Apathy
No way this can go bad for Tennessee now

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

Poque posted:

Update: DePaul is terrible



And Marquette is terrible, Shaka is going to need to figure some stuff out.

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

What, you suddenly care about safety now?

kdrudy posted:

And Marquette is terrible, Shaka is going to need to figure some stuff out.

Yeah it was ugly. Shaka’s second half adjustments made absolutely no sense. Dude’s cooked.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004

i am declaring WAR on fred hoiberg and the university of nebraska-lincoln huskmen. this means they will only beat the lovely-rear end northwestern team who can't get a loving rebound to save their life by 25 instead of 50.

Ungratek
Aug 2, 2005


Another good win for Hoos. 16-2!

TheAlmightyFrog
Oct 7, 2007

squeeeak
I love these comebacks by Kentucky, but I really wish they would stop digging themselves into early holes to make it necessary.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

Just hoping everyone has fun.
I guess Iowa State just sucks now? I don’t know what the gently caress happened to this team.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Bird in a Blender posted:

I guess Iowa State just sucks now? I don’t know what the gently caress happened to this team.

The women dropped a sad one to a bad Cinci two weeks ago so the men are fighting for equality today

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

Just hoping everyone has fun.

DC Murderverse posted:

The women dropped a sad one to a bad Cinci two weeks ago so the men are fighting for equality today

Yea the women’s side has all turned into poo poo. Must be in the water or something.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Bird in a Blender posted:

Yea the women’s side has all turned into poo poo. Must be in the water or something.

No no that’s just cancerous runoff from all the farms

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

Tell me about the rabbits, George
Purdue started down 22-8 at USC, got only 2 points combined between Loyer and Kaufmann-Renn, still up 6 at the half.

And a 9-2 run to give it back up.

PotatoJudge fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 18, 2026

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Ungratek posted:

Another good win for Hoos. 16-2!

been hibernating mostly but louisville and smu is a great pair of back to back away wins, only losses so far to butler on that silly fake court and then the sheer emotion triple OT to VT. duke's there and clemson is gonna put up a gaudy record, their schedule broke really kindly, but virginia's in the mix for the conference again

state meanwhile dropped one at home today to a very bad georgia tech team, the ceiling on the wolfpack is very high but the floor, the floor is very very low

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

What, you suddenly care about safety now?

PotatoJudge posted:

Purdue started down 22-8 at USC, got only 2 points combined between Loyer and Kaufmann-Renn, still up 6 at the half.

And a 9-2 run to give it back up.

Expected a trap game with the travel distance, pleased to leave this week with two wins.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

Tell me about the rabbits, George

Poque posted:

Expected a trap game with the travel distance, pleased to leave this week with two wins.

100%. Everyone except Smith & Cluff were off, officiating was a mess for both sides so no one could get a rhythm, but Purdue survives and plays UCLA who has to travel back from a loss at Ohio State today.

Really though they haven't had a good game since @Wisconsin on the 3rd. They built 20+ point leads against Penn St & Washington, and had trouble putting Iowa away. All 3 of those at home were a lucky break.

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Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Washington being bleh + MSU's first visit since 1957 + Seahawks playoff game = total green and white takeover of Seattle. Jeremy Fears was pumping the crowd up as a visitor lol.

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