The college basketball world was rocked Thursday after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania unveiled indictments of 20 people alleged to have hatched a game-fixing scheme that impacted at least 39 players, 29 games and 17 Division I men’s basketball teams during the 2023–24 and ’24–25 seasons. The indictment also lays out alleged match-fixing in the Chinese Basketball Association.
The indictment paints a detailed picture of how a pair of high-stakes gamblers, Marves Fairley and Shane Hennen (already implicated in the NBA’s gambling scandal), worked with trainers, an AAU coach and a pair of former D-I players to recruit current players to fix game outcomes, both first-half and full-game spreads. Players were incentivized with bribes that the indictment states ranged from $10,000 to $30,000 per game, results that gamblers often bet well north of $100,000 on.
