After a baseball coach was fired and several athletes suspended, an old problem is getting new scrutiny in college sports: gambling.
, who was accused of tipping off a gambler that the Tide’s star pitcher would miss a start. In Iowa, the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into wagers placed by more than three dozen athletes across football, basketball and other sports at Iowa and Iowa State.
, “and then there’s pushback and then learning from that scandal and then trying to refine what we’ve done.”The rules are clear, and stricter than they are for pro athletes: Under NCAA bylaws, athletes can’t bet on any sport, college or professional, in which the NCAA stages a championship game. For instance: a Division I golfer or soccer player can’t bet on an NBA game because the NCAA hosts basketball tournaments to crown its national champions.
“Things are getting caught and escalated appropriately quickly,” he said in an interview. “That’s a sign that the system is working, to me.” Before legal betting, he argued, scandals “would come out months or even years after the event occurred. In the legal market, you’ve seen pretty immediate identification of issues. I think that’s the best deterrent.”
Most bets that raise suspicions prove to be innocuous, though. Matt Holt, chief executive of U.S. Integrity, offered the example of one college football official who consistently referees games that fail to reach the total score used by oddsmakers to entice “over/under” bets, resulting in “under” wagers paying out 80 percent of the time.
Of the 33 states that have legalized sports betting, Oregon is the only one that prohibits any form of gambling on college sports. Nine others bar gamblers from betting on in-state colleges. But in most, all college sports are available to sportsbooks. In determining where to draw the lines, each state had to consider how those rules would impact the schools and the athletes.
Most states have set 21 as the minimum legal betting age, but studies show that college students have some familiarity with gambling well before then. The NCAA’s 2016 survey found that 90 percent of male college athletes and 82 percent of female athletes placed their first bet before coming to college. Nine percent of the male athletes said they bet on sports more than once a month, and 1 in 50 meet criteria to be considered problem gamblers.
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