US Edition26 Charged in NCAA Point-Shaving Scheme Across 17 Teams
The indictment alleges bribes of $10,000 to $30,000 per game to 39 players, rigging nearly 30 NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games in a multi-million dollar scheme.
- On Thursday, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania unsealed court papers charging dozens of defendants in a scheme to fix NCAA college basketball and Chinese professional league games.
- Beginning around September 2022, the scheme targeted the Chinese Basketball Association before recruiting college players with bribes of $10,000 to $30,000, prosecutors say.
- The indictment details involvement across more than 17 Division I teams, describing 39 players and bettors wagering millions on at least 29 games, with Fifteen defendants active in 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
- The indictments allege the defendants committed bribery and wire‑fraud offenses, citing large wagers at Rivers Casino in Philadelphia and a $200,000 cash payment to Antonio Blakeney.
- The indictment arrives amid a wider FBI probe into sports gambling, with officials calling it the latest scandal linked to Terry Rozier's Oct. 23 arrest and gamblers Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley.
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17 college basketball players charged in widespread point-shaving scheme
PHILADELPHIA, (KYMA, KECY) - A major gambling scandal has rocked college basketball after federal prosecutors charged 17 players in connection with an alleged point-shaving scheme that spanned more than two years. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday in Philadelphia, the scheme ran from September 2022 through February 2025 and involved fixing games in both NCAA men’s basketball and the Chinese Basketball Association. In total, 20 defenda…
Twenty-six people were charged in the United States with sports betting in American university basketball and professional basketball in China.
Twenty-six people were charged in a case that splattered both the Chinese basketball championship and the U.S. university championship.
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