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 workforce on Wednesday as a consequence of “circumstances previous to his enrollment at Virginia Tech,” in line with a school statement.
Miller’s former college, 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 data got here to gentle earlier this month relating to the probe at Temple.”
Miller averaged 15.9 factors, 4 assists and three.6 rebounds per recreation for the Owls final season, capturing 35.3 % from the sector and 29.4 % from three. He had 20 or extra factors in three of the workforce’s 5 video games through the AAC Event, 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, nonetheless—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 recreation 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, nonetheless.
The Athletic’s Joe Vardon and Chris Vannini reported in March that at the least three different video games final season “generated irregular betting patterns” outdoors 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 towards Temple that the Owls moved to 10.5-point underdogs by tip-off. Miller had 12 factors in that contest, capturing 4-of-15 from the sector.
On Feb. 28, earlier than Temple’s matchup towards 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 whole factors and 47 first-half factors. Miller scored 16 factors within the contest.
The third recreation that was marked for uncommon betting patterns was the aforementioned Tulsa contest, when bettors once more hammered the below on whole factors and first-half factors on the day of the sport, inflicting each strains to drop. The primary-half factors whole was much less then the ultimate line, although the full factors exceeded the ultimate line however have been decrease than the unique line.
