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” might 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 shedding, not masking betting traces, attempting to hit prop guess targets, “or offering data that enabled others to take action” in the course of the 2024-25 faculty season.
capturing the ball and never really attempting to make it”
Hunter mentioned that he intentionally performed beneath himself at instances, “mainly capturing the ball and never really attempting to make it.” The previous UNO guard additionally mentioned he intentionally misled the Fee’s investigators and tried to deceive them “as a result of I believed I goin’ get my means out of it.”
As to why Hunter selected to cheat, he informed GMA: “I simply had a baby. The college wasn’t paying me, so I used to be attempting to get cash to really deal with my baby.”
The NCAA’s head has been spinning since September when it introduced it was investigating 13 males’s basketball gamers from six completely different colleges, 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 costs and is trying into” faculty athletes linked to a case involving a serious Lucchese family-backed sports activities betting ring.
