Massive College Hoops Scandal Breaks, 20 Charged With Point Shaving

• 20 men, including 15 that played college basketball, were indicted in a point-shaving plot on Thursday morning.
• More than 29 games were allegedly fixed during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
• This is yet another gambling scandal in the world of college and professional sports.

Another gambling scandal was revealed on Thursday morning as 20 men were indicted for point shaving in college basketball.

This is the latest scandal to hit sports, and it’s not likely to be the last.

Some Players Listed in the Indictment Have Played This Season

The news was broken on Thursday morning.  

Of the 20 that were listed in the indictment, 15 played college hoops between 2023 and 2025, including some this season. Two of the players, Dyquavian Short and Cedquavious Hunter, were already found guilty in November by the NCAA of throwing games.

Meanwhile, two other men, Marves Fairley and Shane Hennen, were indicted in the NBA gambling/poker scandal that rocked the league in October 2025.

Antonio Blakeney played college basketball at LSU and in the NBA with Chicago, was also named, but not charged in the indictment. However, the scheme allegedly started with betting on Chinese basketball games. Blakeney played in China during the 2019-2020 season, and again during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. The indictment says that the plot began in 2022, before moving to college basketball. The same indictment states:

"In placing these wagers on games they had fixed, the defendants defrauded sportsbooks, as well as individual sports bettors, who were all unaware that the defendants had corruptly manipulated the outcome of these games that should have been decided fairly, based on genuine competition and the best efforts of the players," the indictment said.

Will There Be More Gambling Scandals?

This will not be the last gambling scandal we hear about, especially in college sports. The NCAA has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to stop using college sports in prediction markets. This is because the NCAA still doesn’t know how to protect its players, which is something they should have thought about long ago.

The NCAA went on the offensive in December 2025, going after prediction market Kalshi for including markets for the transfer portal. But the NCAA also has licensing relationships with some sportsbooks, which makes their opposition to these markets seem hypocritical.

But this won’t be the last betting scandal we hear about in college hoops. Now that it seems to be targeted by federal organizations, we’re going to see more of these in the coming months!