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Last Updated: March 09, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Temple University will assessment studies that present no less than one recreation involving its males’s basketball staff has been flagged by playing watchdog firm U.S. Integrity for uncommon betting exercise.
PHILADELPHIA: Temple University will assessment studies that present no less than one recreation involving its males’s basketball staff has been flagged by playing watchdog firm U.S. Integrity for uncommon betting exercise.
The betting line for Thursday evening’s recreation between Temple and UAB surged from the Blazers opening as a two-level favourite to reaching as excessive as eight factors, per monitoring web site Covers.com. UAB lined the unfold with a 100-72 win at Temple.
“We are aware of the media reports regarding last night’s men’s basketball game,” Temple mentioned Friday in a press release. “We will review the reports thoroughly in accordance with university and NCAA policies. While we can’t comment any further at this time, we take this matter very seriously.”
The Owls are members of the American Athletic Conference, which confirmed it’s a shopper of U.S. Integrity and had no further remark. U.S. Integrity didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. A UAB spokesman declined remark, including “this does not apply to us.”
U.S Integrity final May launched a tip line to assist athletes, coaches and workers to anonymously report suspicions about playing exercise to regulators and legislation enforcement.
The firm performed a job into the investigation of potential wrongdoing involving a University of Alabama baseball recreation. Alabama fired its baseball coach final yr amid an investigation into suspicious bets involving a Crimson Tide recreation at LSU; Brad Bohannon was accused of offering data to a gambler who used it to make unlawful wagers towards the Crimson Tide.
Temple is simply 11-19 in coach Adam Fisher’s first season and performs the common-season finale Sunday in San Antonio towards UTSA. The Owls open the convention match subsequent week in Fort Worth, Texas.
The level unfold can dramatically shift when sportsbooks are taking in cash on one facet. The line could possibly be suspicious as a result of it might imply an awesome sum of money might are available in on UAB — uncommon in an in any other case meaningless faculty basketball recreation with out main accidents or suspensions to key gamers.
The Owls had been outrebound by UAB 41-19, the worst margin because it was outrebounded by 26 towards Cincinnati in January 2019.
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AP Sports Writer John Zenor contributed.
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AP faculty basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball
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