Attorney for ex-Temple basketball player responds after NCAA says athlete bet against his own team

The lawyer representing erstwhile Temple University hoops subordinate Hysier Miller responded aft the NCAA announced Friday that Miller stake connected his ain team's games, with 3 of those bets being against his team.

Attorney Jason Balogna provided a connection to Fox News Digital, asserting that Miller's activities did not see immoderate point-shaving of his ain team.

"The cardinal takeaway present is the NCAA recovered nary grounds that Hysier Miller shaved points. The NCAA conducted a agelong and thorough probe earlier reaching that conclusion. Hysier gave them afloat entree to his compartment telephone and slope account, and helium answered each question they asked him," Balogna said. 

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Hysier Miller #3 of the Temple Owls interviews aft defeating the Florida Atlantic Owls

"He admitted to placing parlay bets, but helium denied shaving points successful immoderate game, and the NCAA’s findings corroborate that they judge Hysier was honorable and cooperative with their investigation."

Temple University enactment retired a connection besides pointing retired the deficiency of grounds for point-shaving. 

"After a implicit and thorough associated investigation, the NCAA recovered nary grounds of constituent shaving or any wrongdoing by the university. From the outset, Temple’s medication and Athletics Department unit afloat cooperated with the NCAA’s enforcement staff—making disposable each applicable witnesses, documents and physics devices—to guarantee the process was thorough, transparent and complete," the connection read. 

"This behaviour does not align with Temple’s expectations oregon the NCAA’s bylaws. Upon learning of these issues, Temple promptly took appropriate remedial actions. The university remains committed to broad compliance acquisition for each athletics unit to guarantee continued adherence to NCAA and league standards."

Miller was Temple's starring scorer successful 2023-24 with 15.9 points per game. He transferred to Virginia Tech up of the 2024-25 season, but was dismissed earlier the play started "due to circumstances anterior to his enrollment," per a Virginia Tech announcement. 

The NCAA's announcement provided a timetable of the probe into Miller.

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Temple Owls defender Hysier Miller (3) tries to thrust by UAB Blazers defender Eric Gaines (4) during the American Athletic Conference Championship crippled betwixt the Temple Owls and the UAB Blazers connected March 17, 2024, astatine Dickies Arena successful Fort Worth, Texas. (Chris Leduc/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Miller's bets included aggregate parlays connected Temple men's hoops games. As a effect of the sports betting violations involving bets connected and against his ain team, Miller violated honesty and sportsmanship and sports betting rules, triggering imperishable ineligibility," the NCAA said. "The enforcement unit and Miller agreed that from Nov. 7, 2022, done March 2, 2024, Miller placed 39 impermissible bets connected Temple men's hoops and an further 3 bets against Temple men's basketball, totaling $473 successful bets.

"Miller ne'er placed a standalone stake connected Temple men's hoops games; rather, those bets were ever portion of parlay bets. Miller interviewed with NCAA enforcement unit and admitted to placing bets connected Temple men's hoops games but did not callback betting against the team."

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Hysier Miller of the Temple Owls dribbles against the Richmond Spiders astatine Barclays Center connected Nov. 22, 2022, successful New York City.  (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

The probe besides resulted successful punishments for erstwhile Temple hoops student-athlete and erstwhile peculiar adjunct to the men's hoops manager Camren Wynter, and Jaylen Bond, a erstwhile men's hoops postgraduate assistant.

The NCAA has cracked down connected amerciable sports betting among its ain athletes successful caller months. 

The NCAA said past period it was investigating astatine slightest 30 existent oregon erstwhile players for gambling allegations. The NCAA besides banned 3 assemblage hoops players successful September for betting connected their ain games astatine Fresno State and San Jose State.

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