NCAA athletes and athletic departments can’t wager on skilled sports activities. The mandate banning athletes and employees from betting stays in place after the board rejected a rule change allowing professional sports activities playing on Friday.
Final month, the NCAA Division I Board voted to delay a legislative change that might allow school athletes and athletic division employees to gamble on skilled sports activities. The rule change, initially supposed to enter impact on Nov. 1, was delayed to Nov. 22 after pushback from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and different distinguished voices.
Every Division I faculty was given 30 days to vote to rescind the proposal, because it was adopted by lower than 75% of the cupboard. Greater than two-thirds voted to cease the rule change, crossing the brink wanted someday earlier than the 30-day interval expired. The modification would have solely affected betting on professional sports activities. Betting on school video games and sharing data with bettors would have remained prohibited whatever the final result.
The choice follows a high-profile federal investigation into sports activities betting and unlawful playing. On Oct. 23, Portland Path Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Warmth guard Terry Rozier and former NBA participant Damon Jones have been amongst greater than 30 individuals arrested by the FBI as a part of two intensive federal grand jury investigations.
On Friday, an NCAA investigation discovered that former Temple guard Hysier Miller positioned bets on and towards his personal group. Two weeks in the past, the NCAA revoked eligibility from six males’s basketball gamers over allegations of sports activities betting.