Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have charged 20 people, including 15 former college basketball players, in what they say was a scheme to fix National Collegiate Athletic Association and Chinese Basketball Association games.
Fifteen of the defendants played basketball for Division 1 NCAA schools as recently as the 2024-25 season, while the other defendants were “fixers,” prosecutors said in the federal indictment filed Thursday.
The fixers included two men who worked in the training and development of the basketball players, another who was a trainer and former coach and one who was a former NCAA player. Two were described as high-stakes sports gamblers, social media influencers and sports handicappers.
In the 70-page indictment, authorities say the fixers recruited the college basketball players with “bribe” payments, ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 a game, to fix the games through “point shaving,” or intentionally manipulating the game’s score.
The scheme began in September 2022 with Chinese Basketball Association games before the fixers turned their attention to the NCAA men’s basketball games. The fixers recruited NCAA players during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons who would accept bribes in exchange for helping influence the outcomes of the games.
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