Virginia Tech basketball switch Hysier Miller has been “completely dismissed” from the Hokies’ hoops program.
Former Temple Owls basketball star Hysier Miller has been dismissed by his workforce earlier than ever enjoying a minute. Virginia Tech says Miller has been dismissed “because of circumstances previous to his enrollment.” (Picture: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Miller’s dismissal earlier than he even suited up for the primary time in Blacksburg since arriving from Temple is reportedly associated to his function in an alleged game-fixing scandal that passed off whereas he performed final season for the Owls within the American Athletic Convention.
Sports Illustrated broke the information of Miller’s dismissal. VT officers later confirmed the report.
Temple switch level guard Hysier Miller has been completely launched from the Virginia Tech males’s basketball program because of circumstances previous to his enrollment at Virginia Tech. There shall be no additional remark by the college on this matter,” a press release from Virginia Tech learn.
A Philly native, Miller was Temple’s main scorer final yr with 15.9 factors, 4.0 assists, and three.6 rebounds per sport. Although the Owls struggled within the common season, going 12-19 general and 5-13 in convention play, the workforce made a Cinderella story run within the AAC event the place they gained 4 straight earlier than shedding within the championship sport to the College of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers 85-69.
Sports activities Betting Investigation
The 2023-24 Temple Owls basketball workforce has been underneath investigation by a outstanding sports activities betting integrity monitor for months.
U.S. Integrity is the AAC’s partnered sports activities betting integrity supervisor. The Las Vegas-based agency screens sports activities betting markets for suspicious exercise that would point out fraud, match-fixing, and sport manipulation.
SI studies that U.S. Integrity started extra intently monitoring Temple video games final season after the corporate detected a number of cases of suspicious line actions.
Throughout Temple’s March 7 regular-season sport towards UAB, the Blazers opened as a 1.5-point favourite at one sportsbook U.S. Integrity was holding tabs on. After a rush of cash got here in on Temple to lose, the road shifted almost 10 factors in a single day earlier than barely shortening to make UAB a seven-point favourite by tipoff.
Temple’s 100-72 blowout loss noticed Miller rating simply eight factors — virtually half of his season common. He took simply 9 pictures, 5 of which got here from behind the three-point line.
Temple’s dismal efficiency towards UAB got here after the Owls have been favored to win by 5.5 factors over the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes however misplaced by seven to fall in need of protecting the unfold by greater than 12 factors.
When media studies broke the information in March that U.S. Integrity was investigating the March 2 and March 7 Owls video games for attainable match-fixing, a Temple assertion mentioned the varsity takes “this matter very significantly.”
2024-25 Penalties
Miller was anticipated to begin for the Hokies this yr at guard and convey the workforce a invaluable scoring weapon.
VT coach Mike Younger hopes to return the Hokies to March Insanity after a down yr the place the workforce went 10-10 in Atlantic Coast Convention play. VT misplaced within the second spherical of the Nationwide Invitation Match (NIT) to Ohio State.
VT’s odds of successful the NCAA males’s basketball championship this season are at 250/1.
NCAA guidelines dictate {that a} student-athlete who throws or purposely alters a sport for sports activities betting causes is topic to a everlasting lack of collegiate eligibility in all sports activities.
