00:00All right, let's deal with this next story here.
00:02The NCAA is adding some availability reports to college basketball, Sam.
00:07This will be crucial, of course, not just for the regular season, but also the NCAA tournament.
00:11And it does make more sense as, you know, sports betting becomes more prevalent.
00:15The NCAA tournament outside of the NFL is the most bet on event each and every year.
00:20And so incoming for that, similar to the NBA, check in the night before, check in the day of the game, give you a better idea as to who's in, who's out.
00:27Yeah, this move is kind of the first movement towards bringing the NCAA more in line with what professional sports like the NFL and NBA do, where they have these mandatory injury reports that drop at a certain time every day that, you know, say whether a player is going to play, whether they're questionable or not.
00:47And that's regarded as the public information.
00:50That's when the lines typically move.
00:52If there is a huge line movement kind of before that information drops, it kind of sets off red flags that maybe somebody got insider information that, you know, we didn't know about publicly.
01:01And then you can, you know, track it down like they did with the NBA betting scandals.
01:05You had inside info on player health.
01:07The line moved tremendously on one of the Lakers Bucks games.
01:11And then, you know, because that wasn't public info, they were able to track it.
01:14The NCAA has never had that mandatory.
01:17Their move this week announcing that they're going to have this being mandatory for March Madness just to begin with.
01:23That's the men's and college, men's and women's college basketball tournaments for Division One, where you're going to have to list if a player is questionable or out before the game.
01:33I mean, it comes obviously in the wake of all these betting scandals and the tremendous pressure.
01:37I think it's just another move that the NCAA is trying to do to, you know, not only safeguard game integrity, but also, you know, help college athletes kind of fight harassment.
01:47We know college athletes really get harassed a lot when it comes to these kind of things.
01:51Player props have been a huge increased focus for college sports as well.
01:55The NCAA president has been lobbying every state to ban player props on college athletes because it kind of, he says, induces them, you know, to maybe throw a game or manipulate their performance a little differently.
02:07So it's starting off with March Madness.
02:09The NCAA says they're going to monitor and see how it works in March Madness and potentially expand it to other college tournaments after that.
02:17Last year, actually, the SEC and Big Ten were the first conferences to move for the mandatory injury reporting, which they've been doing for football.
02:24So it's slowly starting to spread in college athletics.
02:27And I think the more that you, you know, obviously see public pressure put on them by congressmen, by whoever, they're going to start to do more moves like this.
02:35And I think it's a good thing overall to have, you know, more of this mandatory reporting and a uniform thing, especially when you talk about college sports being a lot different than it was back in the days of amateurism.
02:46You know, these are high profile people.
02:48People are easily accessible on social media, people who make lots of money themselves.
02:51So I think it's a good thing.
02:53I'd love to see the NCAA expand it to other sports, but that's going to come after March Madness.
02:58That'll be kind of their pilot program, at least according to the NCAA.
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