Many college BB players among dozens charged in point-shaving plot

[Auggie]

A college basketball point-shaving scheme involving more than 39 players on 17 NCAA Division I teams resulted in dozens of games in the previous two seasons being fixed by a gambling ring that included a former NBA player, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Twenty of the 26 defendants played college basketball during the 2023-24 and/or 2024-25 seasons, according to the indictment. Four of the players charged -- Simeon Cottle, Carlos Hart, Camian Shell and Oumar Koureissi -- have played for their current teams in the past week.

The allegations against Hart, Shell and Koureissi stem from their previous schools, while Cottle's alleged incident occurred in the 2023-24 season. None of the allegations against them were from this season.

Eastern Michigan said in a statement that Hart has been suspended from all team activities pending the outcome of the case while Kennesaw State announced that Cottle has been suspended indefinitely from team activities.

MORE: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/47619154/many-college-players-20-charged-point-shaving-scheme

Schools Named in Indictment:

Abilene Christian
Alabama State
Buffalo
Coppin State
DePaul
Eastern Michigan
Fordham
Kennesaw State
La Salle
New Orleans
Nicholls State
North Carolina A&T
Northwestern State
Robert Morris
Saint Louis
Southern Miss
Tulane

[AZProgressive]

1. Most if not all of those schools are mid-majors

Though a couple of those schools have the potential to be good at times like DePaul.

I don't know if it is unrelated to this gambling ring but a power conference school player in BJ Freeman for Arizona State last year was caught fixing games. On a slightly unrelated note the Sun Devils barely lost last night to the #1 team Arizona Wildcats on the road. They were 21 point underdogs so it doesn't like anyone for ASU is throwing games this year.