Probe Into College Basketball Betting Spike at Eastern Michigan

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00:00college basketball team in eastern michigan that is being flagged for some suspicious sports betting

00:05and in fact suspicious sports betting in the first halves of games here so where do we stand with

00:12this because i've heard a lot of different opinions on it some people a lot smarter than me have been

00:16following this some saying it looks a little bit fishy others saying this is much really a do about

00:21nothing i don't know that we have the answer yet but they're investigating another game in this

00:26case yeah craig i think this is the case of even if it is a much to do about nothing it's kind of

00:32like what's the point of not doing it and investigating it i think sports books right now

00:37are you know just under ultra spot the ultra spotlight ultra scrutiny to try to make sure

00:43that they're getting out ahead of the stuff and preventing it so when you have something that

00:47happened uh last week when um the game between eastern michigan and central michigan um all of

00:53a sudden the first half spread jumped from uh three and a half to that six and a half that does

00:58happen in sports with big bets but um we're talking about you know uh a mid-major conference here and

01:05a regular season game between two lower high profile teams so when the first half spread

01:10jumps about three points just before a tip-off it's going to set off some alarm bells especially

01:14with everything else that's been going on over the past year in terms of suspicious betting activity

01:19so you had integrity compliance 360 which is one of these sports betting monitoring firms where

01:24it's their job to monitor the monitor this stuff and then alert a sports book about it alert the

01:29ncaa about it they contacted the schools and state regulators as well saying that they're now kind of

01:34looking at the wagering activity around this game this is the second eastern michigan basketball

01:40game to set off red flags at the sports betting integrity monitoring service um just a month ago

01:46you had a game against right state and eastern michigan where the first half spread jumped a

01:52considerable number of points against eastern michigan again so seems to be kind of be a theme

01:56here they're tracking um in the last uh in the last case of this kind of happening which is still

02:02under investigation uh the firm was able to monitor a couple of big bets that came specifically from

02:09accounts in connecticut um and tennessee that had previously been flagged for suspicious wagers in

02:15the past so that kind of ties into it as well it's not just big bets are coming in late it's

02:21sort of a theme going on here so uh they're going to continue to kind of investigate everything

02:25nothing's been determined yet uh state regulators are involved the ncaa is involved the school's

02:30involved they're kind of just trying to get the facts here and do their due diligence and

02:34uh we've seen unfortunately like you mentioned we've seen this happen a bunch over the past

02:38couple of years and usually the facts do come to the light uh right now you have a former temple

02:43basketball player who's under federal investigation for allegedly being involved in a similar point

02:49shaving uh scenario um he's sort of denied his lawyer at least has denied all the charges there

02:54but um it's definitely not a new thing in college sports and it seems to kind of be something that

02:58we're just unfortunately having to talk about continuously but i would want to you know hit

03:03home the fact that it is good that this stuff is coming to light it's good that we're talking about

03:07it at least exploring it figuring out if something happened um because the last thing you want to do

03:12is just you know let point shaving happen and that undermines the whole credibility of everything