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David Purdum
Fresno state And the NCAA is investigating allegations that two male basketball players participated in daily fantasy competitions according to their own performances, according to sources familiar with the issue.
The sources have told ESPN that Junior Forward Mykell Robinson And partner betting and participated in daily fantastic sports competitions involving Fresno state games in which he played. The bets and the fantastic entrances included the points and rebounds of Sous sur Robinson, sources said. According to an industry source.
Robinson, a junior striker, was withdrawn from the list after playing in a January 11 match against Nevada. Attempts to reach Robinson to comment have failed.
Senior Guard of Fresno State Jalen weaver told ESPN on Thursday that he had played a daily fantasy competition on his total points in the Bulldogs home match against New Mexico December 31. Weaver said he was risking $ 50 that he would get more than 11 points on the fancy site. He finished with 13 points in a defeat of 103-89 against the lobaries.
“I just made a bad decision, and I shouldn’t even have been getting involved. Now, I obviously pay it,” he said. “I bet on a match in which I played, but I have never tried to sabotage the season. I never bet on us to lose, I have never bet my features.”
Weaver said that the Fresno state athletics department had shown him a text thread between Robinson and himself chatting with betting. Weaver said he had been dismissed from the team and planned to enter the transfer portal at the end of the season.
A third Fresno State player, second year railings Zaon Collinswas held out of the Aviation Game on Saturday for betting on professional sports, according to several sources familiar with the survey. A lawyer representing Collins in another case did not send several messages left by ESPN this week. Collins remains on the list listed on the school website.
Saturday, when the investigation into the game was reported for the first timeFresno State said in a statement that Weaver and Collins “were hidden from the competition while the university reviewed a question of eligibility”.
A Fresno state official refused to comment in ESPN, citing the current investigation. The Mountain West conference did not respond to several messages left by ESPN. The NCAA refused to comment on the investigation, citing confidentiality, but said in a statement that it continued to plead for the ban on propeller bets on individual college players. The propeller bets, he said, “threaten the environment of university athletics considerably-risking the integrity of the competition and targeting student-athletes for harassment”.
“The problems of sports betting are increasing and although the association, conferences and schools do all this to protect the games and students who play them, it is clear the types of bets offered and the prevalence of unregulated Paris markets hinder our efforts,” said NCAA.
NCAA prohibits students-athletes from participating in sports betting, including fantastic sports. The athletes have found manipulated games, information shared with bettors or bets on their games can face a permanent loss of eligibility.
Before the Air Force match, Weaver and Collins were two of the three best scorers in Fresno State, with averages of 12.5 and 12.0 points, respectively. Collins also led the team with 4.7 assists per game.
Sources have told ESPN that the case of Fresno state would not be linked to a federal investigation into the links of a game ring with suspicious bets on university basketball matches.
ESPN reported that the accounts of Paris associated with the bets of the ring deemed suspicious by the bookmakers against Temple,, Eastern Michigan,, North Carolina A&T,, State of the Mississippi Valley And New Orleans In the past two seasons.