Ex-Temple Basketball Player Hysier Miller Bet On His Team To Lose
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Temple guard Hysier Miller positioned lots of bets on Owls games, including some versus his team, the NCAA announced Friday.
The NCAA considered Miller permanently ineligible after discovering he placed 42 parlay bets amounting to $473 on Temple video games throughout the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of those bets protested his team, the NCAA said.
Miller began every game for the Owls during those seasons. The NCAA discovered he utilized sportsbook accounts coming from other individuals to wager.
The NCAA ´ s enforcement personnel interviewed Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, and he admitted to putting parlay bets on Temple video games however did not remember placing any bets versus his team, the NCAA stated.
His attorney, Jason P. Bologna, said the NCAA did a "long and extensive investigation" and found no proof that Miller shaved points. "Hysier provided full access to his mobile phone and checking account, and he responded to every question they asked him. He confessed to putting parlay bets, however he denied shaving points in any game, and the NCAA ´ s findings verify that they accept Hysier was sincere and cooperative with their investigation," Bologna stated in a declaration.
Additionally, former Temple special assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were found to have broken NCAA guidelines by betting on expert and college sports. The NCAA did not discover any bets including Temple by either Wynter or Bond. Both coaches got one-year, show-cause orders and a suspension of 10% of regular-season contests throughout their first year of work.
FILE - 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 tournament, March 17, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
The NCAA did not discover the three cases to be linked.
It's the current gambling infraction uncovered by the NCAA, which withdrawed the eligibility of six males ´ s college basketball players earlier this month as a result of three separate sports-betting cases that included a power-conference school in Arizona State and claims of players tossing games to lose by more points than the spread.
That followed almost three dozen individuals being arrested last month, consisting of an NBA gamer and coach, for what federal police authorities referred to as their involvement in various illegal gaming activities. Just today, UFC President and CEO Dana White stated he was in touch with the FBI relating to a match that included uncommon wagering patterns.
For its part, the NCAA said last month it was investigating a minimum of 30 current or former gamers for gambling claims. The NCAA also banned three college basketball players in September for banking on their own video games at Fresno State and San Jose State.
The NCAA released a project in 2023 urging state regulators and betting companies to eliminate prop bets on college sports from their offerings.
Recently released findings of a new research study found that 36% of Division I guys's basketball players reported experiencing social networks abuse related to sports betting within the last year. There were 29% who reported interaction with a fellow student on campus 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% connecting with another trainee who had banked on their group.
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