Full Recap: 20 Charged in Connection to Sports Betting Scandal in College Basketball

Gamblers Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley and at least 20 recent men’s college basketball players from 17 schools are among those charged with sports bribery and wire fraud in relation to game fixing.

Pat Forde

Follow Sports Illustrated for the latest updates and news on the sports betting scandal rocking college basketball. / Maria Lysaker/Imagn Images

Federal investigators today filed sports bribery and wire fraud charges against 20 people in relation to game fixing, point shaving and performance manipulation in college basketball. Among them: gamblers Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley. According to the indictment, more than 39 players from more than 17 teams attempted to fix at least 29 college basketball games across the 2023–24 and ’24–25 seasons.

Thursday’s updates in college basketball gambling scandal

More College Basketball from Sports Illustrated

Listen to SI’s college sports podcast, Others Receiving Votes, below or on Apple and Spotify. Watch the show on SI’s YouTube channel.

Pat Forde

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the Others Receiving Votes podcast for SI and is a regular contributor to the Tony Kornheiser Show podcast. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.