Ex-Temple Basketball Player Hysier Miller Bet On His Team To Lose
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Temple guard Hysier Miller put dozens of bets on Owls video games, consisting of some against his group, the NCAA announced Friday.
The NCAA considered Miller permanently ineligible after discovering he positioned 42 parlay bets totaling $473 on Temple games throughout the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of those bets protested his team, the NCAA stated.
Miller started every video game for the Owls during those seasons. The NCAA found he used sportsbook accounts belonging to other people to wager.
The NCAA ´ s enforcement personnel spoke with Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, and he admitted to positioning parlay bets on Temple games however did not keep in mind positioning any bets against his group, the NCAA stated.
His legal representative, Jason P. Bologna, stated the NCAA did a "long and comprehensive examination" and discovered no proof that Miller shaved points. "Hysier provided them full access to his cell phone and bank account, and he responded to every concern they asked him. He confessed to putting parlay bets, but he denied shaving points in any video game, and the NCAA ´ s findings verify that they accept Hysier was sincere and cooperative with their examination," Bologna stated in a declaration.
Additionally, former Temple special assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were discovered to have breached NCAA guidelines by wagering on expert and collegiate sports. The NCAA did not find any bets involving Temple by either Wynter or Bond. Both coaches got 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 versus UAB during the very first half of an NCAA college basketball video game in the championship 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 linked.
It's the most recent gaming offense revealed by the NCAA, which withdrawed the eligibility of 6 men ´ s college basketball gamers previously this month as a result of 3 separate sports-betting cases that included a power-conference school in Arizona State and allegations of gamers tossing games to lose by more points than the spread.
That followed almost 3 dozen people being jailed last month, including an NBA gamer and coach, for what federal law enforcement authorities referred to as their participation in various illicit betting activities. Just today, UFC President and CEO Dana White stated he was in touch with the FBI relating to a match that involved uncommon wagering patterns.
For its part, the NCAA stated last month it was investigating at least 30 current or former gamers for betting allegations. The NCAA likewise prohibited three college basketball players in September for banking on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State.
The NCAA launched a project in 2023 prompting state regulators and gambling business to get rid of prop bets on college sports from their offerings.
Recently released findings of a new study found that 36% of Division I men's basketball gamers reported experiencing social media abuse related to sports wagering within the in 2015. There were 29% who reported with a fellow student on school who had actually placed a bet on their groups.
Both of those figures were greater than reported by gamers in the Football Bowl Subdivision, with 16% reporting unfavorable or threatening messages, and 26% engaging with another student who had actually banked on their group.
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