The NCAA Committee on Infractions released three infractions decisions related to sports betting violations in the Temple men's basketball program. The infractions involved Hysier Miller, a former men's basketball student-athlete; Camren Wynter, a former special assistant to the men's basketball coach; and Jaylen Bond, a former men's basketball graduate assistant. All three individuals bet on professional and collegiate sports, and Miller's bets included multiple parlays on Temple men's basketball games. As a result of the sports betting violations involving bets on and against his own team, Miller violated honesty and sportsmanship and sports betting rules, triggering permanent ineligibility. Bond and Wynter violated principles of sportsmanship and honesty by engaging in betting behaviors they knew were against NCAA rules.
The violations in these cases were uncovered after a sports integrity monitoring service notified the NCAA enforcement staff that there were potential issues concerning Temple men's basketball games. The enforcement staff and Temple opened a collaborative investigation and uncovered sports betting activities by three individuals. The individuals do not appear to have coordinated with each other on the betting activities.
The enforcement staff and Miller agreed that from Nov. 7, 2022, through March 2, 2024, Miller placed 39 impermissible bets on Temple men's basketball and an additional three bets against Temple men's basketball, totaling $473 in bets. Miller never placed a standalone bet on Temple men's basketball games; rather, those bets were always part of parlay bets. Miller interviewed with NCAA enforcement staff and admitted to placing bets on Temple men's basketball games but did not recall betting against the team.
Similarly, over the course of five months in 2023, Wynter placed at least 52 impermissible bets — totaling approximately $9,642 — on professional and collegiate sports, including $1,923 in bets on college football. No bets were on Temple athletics contests. In an interview with the enforcement staff, Wynter acknowledged that he had bet on college sports, despite knowing sports betting violated NCAA rules and being educated by Temple about those rules.
Finally, the enforcement staff and Bond agreed that over the course of nearly two years, Bond placed 546 impermissible bets — totaling approximately $5,597 — on professional and collegiate sports, including $200 in bets on college football and basketball. No bets were on Temple athletics contests. Bond cooperated with the enforcement investigation, and in an interview with the enforcement staff, he acknowledged that he had bet on college sports, despite knowing sports betting violated NCAA rules and being educated by Temple about those rules.
The three separate cases, including Miller's, were resolved via negotiated resolution in coordination with the school, per infractions process operating procedures. Miller and Bond participated in negotiated resolutions and agreed to their violations. Although Wynter participated in an interview with the enforcement staff, he did not participate in the negotiated resolution process.
The Committee on Infractions does not currently assess penalties for student-athletes who violated NCAA rules, but it did approve the findings for Miller, confirming that the violations occurred. Student-athletes who are found to have violated NCAA rules are ineligible and can only be reinstated with the assistance of an NCAA school. In 2023, Division I members changed the guidelines for student-athlete reinstatement for sports betting violations. Generally speaking, the starting point for student-athletes who bet on their own games or share information for betting purposes is a permanent loss of eligibility.
In October 2024, NCAA rules went into effect allowing sports betting violations that do not compromise the integrity of collegiate contests and/or involve lack of institutional oversight to be processed at different levels for the involved individual and school. Based on the nature of their respective conduct and their level of participation in the process, the Division I panel classified Wynter's case as Level II-standard and Bond's case as Level II-mitigated.
Penalties for both Wynter and Bond include:
- A one-year show-cause order. If either individual is hired by an NCAA school during that time, he will be required to lead a rules education presentation on sports betting with men's basketball staff and student-athletes.
- A suspension from 10% of the men's basketball regular-season contests (the equivalent of three regular-season games) during their first year of employment during the show-cause order.
Members of the Committee on Infractions are drawn from the NCAA membership and public. The panel members who reviewed the three Temple cases are Josh Gordon, faculty athletics representative at Oregon; Kendra Greene, senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at Cleveland State; and Jason Leonard, executive director of athletics compliance at Oklahoma and chief hearing officer for the panel.
