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 video games, consisting of some against his group, the NCAA revealed Friday.


The NCAA considered Miller permanently ineligible after finding he put 42 parlay bets totaling $473 on Temple video games during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of those bets protested his team, the NCAA stated.


Miller started every game for the Owls throughout those seasons. The NCAA found he used sportsbook accounts coming from other individuals to bet.


The NCAA ´ s enforcement staff talked to Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, and he confessed to positioning parlay bets on Temple games however did not keep in mind placing any bets versus his group, the NCAA said.


His legal representative, Jason P. Bologna, stated the NCAA did a "long and extensive investigation" and discovered no proof that Miller shaved points. "Hysier provided complete access to his mobile phone and bank account, and he responded to every concern they asked him. He admitted to putting parlay bets, however he denied shaving points in any game, and the NCAA ´ s findings validate that they accept Hysier was truthful and cooperative with their investigation," Bologna stated in a declaration.


Additionally, former Temple unique assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were found to have actually breached NCAA guidelines by banking on professional and college sports. The NCAA did not discover any bets involving Temple by either Wynter or Bond. Both coaches received one-year, show-cause orders and a suspension of 10% of regular-season contests throughout their very first year of employment.


FILE - Temple's Hysier Miller dribbles up court versus UAB throughout the first half of an NCAA college basketball 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 3 cases to be connected.


It's the most recent gambling offense revealed by the NCAA, which revoked the eligibility of six males ´ s college basketball gamers previously this month as a result of 3 different sports-betting cases that included a power-conference school in Arizona State and claims of gamers throwing games to lose by more points than the spread.


That followed almost 3 lots people being arrested last month, including an NBA gamer and coach, for what police authorities described as their participation in numerous illegal betting activities. Just today, UFC President and CEO Dana White said he was in touch with the FBI concerning a match that involved uncommon wagering patterns.


For its part, the NCAA said last month it was investigating at least 30 current or previous players for betting allegations. The NCAA likewise prohibited 3 college basketball players in September for betting on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State.


The NCAA released a project in 2023 prompting state regulators and betting companies to get rid of prop bets on college sports from their offerings.


Recently launched findings of a new study found that 36% of Division I males's basketball gamers reported experiencing social media abuse related to sports betting within the in 2015. There were 29% who reported interaction with a fellow student on campus who had actually positioned a bet on their teams.


Both of those figures were greater than reported by players in the Football Bowl Subdivision, with 16% reporting negative or threatening messages, and 26% engaging with another student who had actually bet on their team.


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