A former Temple men’s basketball player placed dozens of bets on Owls games over two seasons, including wagering against his own team, the NCAA announced Friday.
Former Temple guard Hysier Miller was deemed permanently ineligible after the NCAA found he placed 42 bets totaling $473 on parlays that included 23 Owls games during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Three of the bets were against his team, according to the NCAA. Multiple sources familiar with the matter told ESPN that those bets were parlays involving a Nov. 22, 2023 game against Ole Miss and a Feb. 8, 2024 game against Memphis. Temple lost both games.
Miller started every game for Temple in those two seasons. The NCAA found that he used sportsbook accounts belonging to other people to bet.
When the NCAA’s enforcement staff interviewed Miller on Oct. 10, 2024, he admitted to placing parlay bets on Temple games but did not remember placing any bets against his team or the number of bets placed on the Owls, according to the NCAA.
“The key takeaway here is the NCAA found no evidence that Hysier Miller shaved points,” Miller’s attorney, Jason Bologna, told ESPN in a statement. “The NCAA conducted a long and thorough investigation before reaching that conclusion. Hysier gave them full access to his cell phone and bank account, and he answered every question they asked him. He admitted to placing parlay bets, but he denied shaving points in any game, and the NCAA’s findings confirm that they accept Hysier was honest and cooperative with their investigation.”
Additionally, former Temple special assistant coach Camren Wynter and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond were found to have violated NCAA rules by betting on professional and collegiate sports, according to the release announcing the violations. The NCAA did not find any bets involving Temple by either Wynter or Bond. Both coaches received one-year show-cause orders and a suspension of 10% of regular-season contests during their first year of employment.
The NCAA did not find the three cases to be connected.
Sportsbooks began detecting suspicious betting activity on Temple games during the 2023-24 season. Ahead of a UAB-Temple game on March 7, 2024, the point spread moved six points against the Owls, an unusual line shift that late in the season. The line movement triggered U.S. Integrity, a firm that monitors the sports betting market for abnormalities, to send out an alert to its sportsbook clients. UAB won the game 100-72.
In its report, the NCAA said Miller placed bets between Nov. 7, 2022, and March 2, 2024, before the UAB-Temple game was played.
Miller was Temple’s leading scorer in the 2023-24 season, averaging 15.9 points per game. He transferred to Virginia Tech but was dismissed from the team before the 2024-25 season “due to circumstances prior to his enrollment,” the school announced.
ESPN previously reported that Miller was under investigation by federal authorities regarding betting allegations.
The NCAA has ruled 14 players, including Miller, ineligible from seven schools because of betting violations this year, and players at Western Michigan, Wisconsin, Dayton and Eastern Kentucky were held out of competition entering the season amid ongoing investigations, ESPN previously reported.
Last month, the NCAA said it has opened cases into approximately 30 current and former men’s basketball players over potential sports betting violations.
