Ex-Temple Basketball Player Hysier Miller Bet On His Team To Lose
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Temple guard Hysier Miller placed lots of bets on Owls games, consisting of some against his team, the NCAA announced Friday.
The NCAA considered Miller permanently ineligible after finding he placed 42 parlay bets totaling $473 on Temple video games during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of those bets were against his team, the NCAA said.
Miller started every game for the Owls during those seasons. The NCAA discovered he used sportsbook accounts belonging to other individuals to bet.
The NCAA ´ s enforcement personnel interviewed Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, and he confessed to bets on Temple games however did not remember placing any bets against his team, the NCAA stated.
His lawyer, Jason P. Bologna, said the NCAA did a "long and comprehensive examination" and found no proof that Miller shaved points. "Hysier gave them complete access to his mobile phone and checking account, and he answered every concern they asked him. He confessed to putting parlay bets, however he rejected shaving points in any video game, and the NCAA ´ s findings confirm that they accept Hysier was truthful and cooperative with their examination," Bologna stated in a statement.
Additionally, former Temple unique assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were found to have actually breached NCAA guidelines by betting on expert and collegiate sports. The NCAA did not find any bets involving 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 first year of work.
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 current gambling infraction revealed by the NCAA, which revoked the eligibility of six guys ´ s college basketball gamers previously this month as an outcome of three separate sports-betting cases that involved a power-conference school in Arizona State and claims of gamers throwing video games to lose by more points than the spread.
That followed nearly 3 lots individuals being apprehended last month, consisting of an NBA player and coach, for what federal law enforcement authorities described as their participation in various illegal gambling activities. Just today, UFC President and CEO Dana White said he was in touch with the FBI concerning a match that involved uncommon betting patterns.
For its part, the NCAA said last month it was examining at least 30 present or previous gamers for betting claims. The NCAA also prohibited 3 college basketball gamers in September for banking on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State.
The NCAA launched a project in 2023 urging state regulators and gambling business to eliminate prop bets on college sports from their offerings.
Recently launched findings of a new research study found that 36% of Division I males's basketball gamers reported experiencing social networks abuse related to sports wagering within the last year. There were 29% who reported interaction with a fellow trainee on school who had positioned a bet on their groups.
Both of those figures were greater than reported by gamers in the Football Bowl Subdivision, with 16% reporting negative or threatening messages, and 26% interacting with another student who had actually bet on their group.
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