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 team, the NCAA announced Friday.


The NCAA deemed Miller permanently ineligible after finding 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 began every video game for the Owls during those seasons. The NCAA discovered he utilized sportsbook accounts coming from other individuals to wager.


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


His lawyer, Jason P. Bologna, stated the NCAA did a "long and comprehensive examination" and found no proof that Miller shaved points. "Hysier provided full access to his cellular phone and savings account, and he answered every question they asked him. He confessed to positioning parlay bets, however he denied shaving points in any video game, and the NCAA ´ s findings verify that they accept Hysier was sincere and cooperative with their investigation," Bologna said in a statement.


Additionally, previous Temple special assistant coach Camren Wynter and former Jaylen Bond were discovered to have actually breached NCAA rules by wagering on professional and college sports. The NCAA did not find any bets involving Temple by either Wynter or Bond. Both coaches got one-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 versus UAB during the first half of an NCAA college basketball video game in the champion 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 latest gambling infraction revealed by the NCAA, which withdrawed the eligibility of six guys ´ s college basketball gamers previously this month as an outcome of three separate sports-betting cases that included a power-conference school in Arizona State and claims of players throwing video games to lose by more points than the spread.


That followed almost three dozen individuals being detained last month, consisting of an NBA player and coach, for what federal police authorities explained as their participation in different illicit gambling activities. Just today, UFC President and CEO Dana White stated he was in touch with the FBI concerning a match that included uncommon betting patterns.


For its part, the NCAA stated last month it was investigating a minimum of 30 current or former gamers for betting allegations. The NCAA also prohibited 3 college basketball players in September for banking on their own video games at Fresno State and San Jose State.


The NCAA introduced a project in 2023 advising state regulators and gambling companies to remove prop bets on college sports from their offerings.


Recently released findings of a brand-new study discovered that 36% of Division I males's basketball gamers reported experiencing social media abuse related to sports betting within the last year. There were 29% who reported interaction with a fellow trainee on school who had placed a bet on their teams.


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


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