Featured Columnist IVOctober 23, 2024
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Virginia Tech guard Hysier Miller, who transferred from Temple within the offseason, was dismissed from the Hokies’ males’s basketball crew on Wednesday as a consequence of “circumstances previous to his enrollment at Virginia Tech,” in keeping with a school statement.
Miller’s former faculty, Temple, has been the topic of an NCAA investigation into uncommon betting patterns final season, and Pat Forde of SI.com reported that “it is unclear what vetting Virginia Tech did of Miller’s time at Temple, however sources say new info got here to mild earlier this month relating to the probe at Temple.”
Miller averaged 15.9 factors, 4 assists and three.6 rebounds per sport for the Owls final season, taking pictures 35.3 % from the sector and 29.4 % from three. He had 20 or extra factors in three of the crew’s 5 video games in the course of the AAC Match, together with 32 factors and 6 assists throughout an 85-69 loss to UAB within the title contest.
In one of many video games that playing watchdog firm U.S. Integrity flagged for uncommon playing exercise, nevertheless—a March 7 matchup with UAB that noticed the road transfer from UAB (-1.5) to UAB (-8) on the day of the sport—Miller scored simply eight factors and had three turnovers.
It was the second straight sport Temple completed far off the unfold. Within the earlier contest, the Owls have been 5.5-point favorites over Tulsa however misplaced by 5. Miller scored 19 factors in that contest, nevertheless.
The Athletic’s Joe Vardon and Chris Vannini reported in March that at the very least three different video games final season “generated irregular betting patterns” exterior of the UAB contest.
The primary was on Feb. 8, when Temple performed Memphis and initially was 6.5-point underdogs, although a lot cash was wager in opposition to Temple that the Owls moved to 10.5-point underdogs by tip-off. Miller had 12 factors in that contest, taking pictures 4-of-15 from the sector.
On Feb. 28, earlier than Temple’s matchup in opposition to Rice, bettors put sufficient cash into the unders for total factors (140.5) and first-half factors (64) to drop each strains considerably on the day of the sport. And the sport itself simply completed beneath these marks, with 108 complete factors and 47 first-half factors. Miller scored 16 factors within the contest.
The third sport that was marked for uncommon betting patterns was the aforementioned Tulsa contest, when bettors once more hammered the underneath on complete factors and first-half factors on the day of the sport, inflicting each strains to drop. The primary-half factors complete was much less then the ultimate line, although the entire factors exceeded the ultimate line however have been decrease than the unique line.
