NCAA bans ex-Abilene Christian basketball player Airion Simmons for alleged role in throwing games
The NCAA said Simmons took cash to help fix a March 2024 game and later was named in a federal bribery and fraud indictment.
- On Friday, the NCAA permanently banned former Abilene Christian basketball player Airion Simmons after concluding he violated sports betting integrity rules during his collegiate career.
- Simmons colluded with teammates and bettors to manipulate his performance in exchange for money, accepting $3,500 to "play bad" in a Dallas parking lot after the game.
- After a transfer student reported being pressured to join the scheme, investigators found Simmons "knowingly provided information to individuals involved in sports wagering activities and agreed to manipulate his performance."
- Prosecutors in Philadelphia indicted Simmons in January alongside two bettors on charges including bribery and wire fraud, with maximum sentences of 20 years for fraud and five years for bribery.
- This ban follows the NCAA permanently prohibiting two former Fordham basketball players last month, marking Simmons as the latest student-athlete to lose eligibility in an ongoing point-shaving investigation.
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NCAA bans ex-Abilene Christian basketball player Airion Simmons for alleged role in throwing games
A former Abilene Christian men’s basketball player has been permanently banned by the NCAA for allegedly helping rig basketball games for sports bettors.
Airion Simmons Permanently Banned by NCAA for Violating Sports Betting Integrity Rules
Former Abilene Christian men's basketball player Airion Simmons has been deemed permanently ineligible by the NCAA after the organization concluded Friday he violated sports betting integrity rules during his playing career.
Former NCAA basketball player agreed to help bettors by poor performance
The NCAA determined that former Abilene Christian men’s basketball player Airion Simmons violated the organization’s sports betting rules as part of a gambling scheme involving his own poor performance in exchange for payment. The NCAA caught wind of Simmons’s illicit behavior after another student-athlete self-reported the gambling violations to his new institution after transferring from ACU. The reported violations led the NCAA to initiate a …
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