Here is more on SLU´s link to the scandal, with an A10 league game tainted. You will be shocked (SHOCKED!) to learn it involves a former player for That School Down the Street.

https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-01-15/feds-charge-ex-st-louis-university-basketball-player-game-fixing-scheme

LaSalle alleged to have rigged its game last season vs St Bona. 

https://www.phillyvoice.com/ncaa-basketball-illegal-gambling-scheme-point-shaving-charges/

Shocking that gambling would taint college sports. Wait until they check on the refs lol. Bottom line is there should be no legalized gambling on college athletics especially prop bets. I find it funny that people are shocked and offended that everything that has predicted for years is coming true. You can see it here. People are often more pissed that they lost money than GW losing. That wasn't the case years ago,

 

We now have athletes who are passing up the opportunity to join a professional league early in order to stay in college because they stand to make more money as a college athlete.  

But this story is not about that.  It's about the athlete who isn't making a fraction of what top players, or perhaps even teammates in certain situations, earn.  Paying college athletes is fine in theory but it was never meant to be the circus it has turned into.  When Player A feels he deserves to make more than Player B but isn't, he feels cheated.  It's not, "well, some money is better than no money."  Instead, it's "I deserve more money so if I can make more by trying to fix a game, I'm OK with that."

Free Quebec wrote:

There have been a handful of games the last several years in which the refereeing has been so egregiously bad against us that I will be shocked if it doesn’t come out in the next few years that some refs who have worked out games have been involved with efforts to influence games for gambling.

Officiating is a much easier way to affect games. There is no doubt that this will be the next scandal.

Worth noting Tulane is listed as rigging games. The same Tulane that really should know better given its history (you young´ns google "Hot Rod Williams"). 
Am I the only one here who reads these stories and thinks "well, no GW game has been mentioned yet" with "yet" being the opperative word?
The fact is sports, sports broadcasting, and sports gambling have all become so interwoven that I cannot watch a .312 hitter go 2-9 for a series, see a guard go 5-11 from the line, or view a running back fumble twice in the same game without wondering. Cricket is so corrupted with "spot fixing" that, at the one international match I attended, after a dropped catch the fans started chanting "the fix is in". I have attended fixed football/soccer matches at stadiums built with no-bid contracts, but FIFA is so well-know for being a mafia-esque criminal enterprise that it comes as no surprise. At least pro wresting has its script writers on staff. 
 

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If you are betting on Fordham basketball games, then you might have a gambling problem?

As long as the college athlete is paid, I think the way to reduce this kind of problem is to treat them as professional athletes.  Payments to the athlete should not be private contracts, they should be salaries that are registered with the NCAA (or some entity that they create), subject to public oversight and published.  That's the ways it works in professional sports and, while they have their issues too, there's at least a constant light that shined on compensation.   I think there's too much secrecy surrounding how NIL money is doled out.  Secrecy attracts illegal activity.  I'd also publish what the coaches and referees are making. College sports is now professional sports and there's more money than every flowing in all sorts of directions.  Sunlight is the best disinfectant. 

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