NCAA Basketball Player Publicly Admits to Point-Shaving

Ex-UNO guard Dae Dae Hunter has admitted on TV to point-shaving as a part of a sports activities betting scheme. [Image: Shutterstock.com]

Former College of New Orleans (UNO) guard Dae Dae Hunter has publicly admitted to point-shaving as a part of a sports activities betting scheme.

The ex-NCAA student-athlete’s confession on ABC’s “Good Morning America” may additional weaken the US public’s perception within the integrity of elite athletes.

Earlier this month, the NCAA banned Hunter, fellow ex-UNO teammates Dyquavian Brief and Jamond Vincent, plus Arizona State’s Chatton “BJ” Freeman and Mississippi Valley State pair Donovan Sanders and Alvin Stredic.

The NCAA’s infractions arm discovered Hunter and the opposite six ex-college basketballers responsible of manipulating their performances to have an effect on the outcomes of video games, both by dropping, not overlaying betting strains, making an attempt to hit prop wager targets, “or offering data that enabled others to take action” through the 2024-25 faculty season.

capturing the ball and never truly making an attempt to make it”

Hunter stated that he intentionally performed beneath himself at instances, “principally capturing the ball and never truly making an attempt to make it.” The previous UNO guard additionally stated he intentionally misled the Fee’s investigators and tried to deceive them “as a result of I assumed I goin’ get my means out of it.”

As to why Hunter selected to cheat, he advised GMA: “I simply had a toddler. The college wasn’t paying me, so I used to be making an attempt to get cash to really handle my youngster.”

The NCAA’s head has been spinning since September when it introduced it was investigating 13 males’s basketball gamers from six totally different faculties, together with UNO, Arizona State, and Mississippi Valley State. In October, the NCAA added that it was investigating a minimal of 30 present or ex-players for betting allegations and that a number of sportsbooks had flagged the shady exercise. Simply final week, the NCAA admitted it was “conscious of the fees and is wanting into” faculty athletes linked to a case involving a serious Lucchese family-backed sports activities betting ring.