17 college basketball players charged in point-shaving scheme: Indictment [View all]
Source: ABC News
17 college basketball players charged in point-shaving scheme: Indictment
The alleged scheme ran from September 2022 to February 2025.
ByAaron Katersky
January 15, 2026, 10:06 AM ET • 4 min read
Former college All-American Antonio Blakeney is among 17 basketball players named in a point-shaving scheme to fix games in the NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association and rig bets, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday in Philadelphia.
The alleged scheme ran from September 2022 to February 2025 and defrauded various sportsbooks and individual bettors.
"The sportsbooks would not have paid out those wagers had they known that the defendants fixed those games," the indictment said.
In total, 20 defendants are named in the indictment, including basketball players who agreed, in exchange for bribes, to fix NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games. So-called fixers who were operating the scheme then placed big bets on those games.
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