Western Michigan is withholding transfer guard Justice Williams from basketball competition “pending the result of a recent NCAA investigation of events that precede his enrollment,” the school said in a statement to Sports Illustrated on Thursday night. Williams is a player of interest in the association’s ongoing gambling investigation in college basketball, sources tell SI.
It is unclear whether Williams also is of interest in the federal probe of alleged game fixing, point shaving and performance manipulation in college basketball, or just the NCAA’s separate but concurrent inquiry. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is believed to be in the latter stages of its investigation. Last week, the Eastern District of New York announced a sweeping series of arrests and indictments which included alleged corruption at the NBA level.
