A former Temple males’s basketball participant positioned dozens of bets on Owls video games over two seasons, together with wagering towards his personal group, the NCAA introduced Friday.
Former Temple guard Hysier Miller was deemed completely ineligible after the NCAA discovered he positioned 42 bets totaling $473 on parlays that included 23 Owls video games in the course of the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of the bets had been towards his group, based on the NCAA.
Miller began each sport for Temple in these two seasons. The NCAA discovered that he used sportsbook accounts belonging to different folks to guess.
When the NCAA’s enforcement employees interviewed Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, he admitted to putting parlay bets on Temple video games however didn’t keep in mind putting any bets towards his group or the variety of bets positioned on the Owls, based on the NCAA.
“The important thing takeaway right here is the NCAA discovered no proof that Hysier Miller shaved factors,” Miller’s legal professional, Jason Bologna, instructed ESPN in an announcement. “The NCAA performed an extended and thorough investigation earlier than reaching that conclusion. Hysier gave them full entry to his cellphone and checking account, and he answered each query they requested him. He admitted to putting parlay bets, however he denied shaving factors in any sport, and the NCAA’s findings affirm that they settle for Hysier was sincere and cooperative with their investigation.”
Moreover, former Temple particular assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond had been discovered to have violated NCAA guidelines by betting on skilled and collegiate sports activities, based on the discharge saying the violations. The NCAA didn’t discover any bets involving Temple by both Wynter or Bond. Each coaches acquired one-year show-cause orders and a suspension of 10% of regular-season contests throughout their first yr of employment.
The NCAA didn’t discover the three circumstances to be related.
Sportsbooks started detecting suspicious betting exercise on Temple video games in the course of the 2023-24 season. Forward of a UAB-Temple sport on March 7, 2024, the purpose unfold moved six factors towards the Owls, an uncommon line shift that late within the season. The road motion triggered U.S. Integrity, a agency that displays the sports activities betting marketplace for abnormalities, to ship out an alert to its sportsbook shoppers. UAB received the sport 100-72.
In its report, the NCAA mentioned Miller positioned bets between Nov. 7, 2022, and March 2, 2024, earlier than the UAB-Temple sport was performed.
Miller was Temple’s main scorer within the 2023-24 season, averaging 15.9 factors per sport. He transferred to Virginia Tech however was dismissed from the group earlier than the 2024-25 season “as a consequence of circumstances previous to his enrollment,” the varsity introduced.
ESPN beforehand reported that Miller was beneath investigation by federal authorities relating to betting allegations.
The NCAA has dominated 14 gamers, together with Miller, ineligible from seven colleges due to betting violations this yr, and gamers at Western Michigan, Wisconsin, Dayton and Japanese Kentucky had been held out of competitors coming into the season amid ongoing investigations, ESPN beforehand reported.
Final month, the NCAA mentioned it has opened circumstances into roughly 30 present and former males’s basketball gamers over potential sports activities betting violations.
