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Three basketball players who spent time with either Fresno State or San Jose State were permanently banned by the NCAA on Wednesday as part of a gambling investigation, the organization announced.
Mykell Robinson, Steven Vasquez and Jalen Weaver were deemed permanently ineligible by the NCAA. All three players were released from their teams and no longer enrolled at their schools following the investigation.
Robinson played his last game of the 2024–25 season at Fresno State on Jan. 11, missing the last two months of the season. Weaver last played on Feb. 18. Vasquez, who had a limited role at San Jose State, last played on Feb. 11. Both teams finished the season with losing records. The schools have not been charged with wrongdoing in those cases.
In its ruling, the NCAA determined "the student-athletes bet on their own games, one another's games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so during the 2024-25 regular season." The NCAA found evidence that two of those players manipulated their own performances to ensure certain bets were won.
“The NCAA enforcement staff began the investigation after notifications from Fresno State and a sports betting integrity monitor about suspicious prop bets placed on Robinson,” the NCAA said in a release announcing the infractions rulings. “The NCAA enforcement staff uncovered evidence that the three student-athletes shared information about individual betting lines for the purpose of manipulating outcomes to win prop bets.”
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
