DAVID JACOBS | MANAGING EDITOR | drjacobs@butler.edu
Initially reported by CBS News, federal prosecutors charged 20 people, including several former college basketball players, in an alleged point-shaving scheme.
The indictment obtained by CBS states that more than 39 college basketball players on at least 17 Division I teams “fixed and attempted to fix” over 29 games.
Of those teams, investigators listed Butler as a school affected by the scheme, having played in a game where the opponent was point-shaving.
Butler is accompanied by St. John’s, Georgetown and DePaul as schools in the Big East named in the scheme, and are the only power-five schools to be named in the indictment.