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 games, including some versus his team, the NCAA revealed Friday.


The NCAA considered Miller permanently ineligible after finding he placed 42 parlay bets totaling $473 on Temple games throughout the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of those bets were versus his group, the NCAA stated.


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


The NCAA ´ s enforcement staff interviewed Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, and he admitted to placing parlay bets on Temple video games however did not remember putting any bets versus his group, the NCAA said.


His legal representative, Jason P. Bologna, stated the NCAA did a "long and thorough examination" and discovered no evidence that Miller shaved points. "Hysier offered them complete access to his cell phone and bank account, and he addressed every concern they asked him. He admitted to placing parlay bets, however he denied shaving points in any game, and the NCAA ´ s findings confirm that they accept Hysier was honest and cooperative with their examination," Bologna said in a statement.


Additionally, former Temple special assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were discovered to have violated NCAA guidelines by wagering on expert and college 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 .


FILE - Temple's Hysier Miller dribbles up court against UAB throughout the very 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 linked.


It's the most recent gambling offense revealed by the NCAA, which withdrawed the eligibility of 6 males ´ s college basketball players earlier this month as a result of 3 different 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 nearly three lots individuals being apprehended last month, including an NBA gamer and coach, for what federal law enforcement authorities explained as their participation in various illicit gaming activities. Just this week, UFC President and CEO Dana White said he was in touch with the FBI relating to a match that included uncommon betting patterns.


For its part, the NCAA said last month it was investigating a minimum of 30 existing or former gamers for gambling claims. The NCAA also prohibited 3 college basketball gamers in September for betting on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State.


The NCAA introduced a campaign in 2023 advising state regulators and betting business to eliminate prop bets on college sports from their offerings.


Recently released findings of a new study found that 36% of Division I guys's basketball gamers reported experiencing social media abuse associated to sports betting within the in 2015. There were 29% who reported interaction with a fellow trainee on school who had put a bet on their groups.


Both of those figures were greater than reported by players in the Football Bowl Subdivision, with 16% reporting unfavorable or threatening messages, and 26% communicating with another trainee who had wagered on their team.


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