The NCAA Point Shaving Scandals: A History of College Basketball’s Darkest Fixes
College Basketball Has Never Fully Escaped Its Gambling Problem College basketball and point-shaving corruption have been intertwined for nearly a century — and the pattern has never stopped repeating. From Mob-connected bookmakers prowling New York’s Madison Square Garden in the late 1940s to an FBI-unsealed federal indictment in January 2026 naming 39 players across 17 … Read more