Former players at Arizona State, Mississippi Valley State and New Orleans were ruled permanently ineligible Friday. Michael Reaves / Getty Images

The NCAA on Friday declared six former Division I men’s basketball players permanently ineligible after investigations found they tried to fix games and provided information to gamblers about how they would manipulate performances and outcomes.

Three former players from New Orleans (Cedquavious Hunter, Dyquavian Short and Jamond Vincent), two from Mississippi Valley State (Donovan Sanders and Alvin Stredic) and one from Arizona State (BJ Freeman) were banned as a result of the investigations. The NCAA said the investigations are not directly connected and only implicated the players involved, not the schools or any employees. All six players are no longer enrolled at their previous schools.

Text messages between Vincent and three third parties indicated he told the recipients to bet on a Dec. 28, 2024 game between New Orleans and McNeese because he and his teammates planned to “throw the game,” the NCAA’s report said. Vincent, Hunter and Short “manipulated their performances” in seven games in total last December and January, the NCAA said.

“Vincent acknowledged the conversations about throwing the game but denied following through with the plan, and Short and Hunter denied knowledge of and involvement in the plan,” the NCAA said.

Sanders and Stredic, the former Mississippi Valley State players, were found to have provided information to bettors for the purpose of betting on games. Another player on the team told NCAA investigators that he overheard Sanders on the phone with an unknown third party talking about “throwing” a game played against Tulsa on Dec. 21, 2024.

“The enforcement staff demonstrated that Sanders knowingly provided information to a third party for the purposes of sports betting for two games and Stredic did the same for one game,” the NCAA said.

Both players failed to cooperate with NCAA investigators by providing “false or misleading information” and did not provide requested records, the NCAA said.

Freeman, who had a year of eligibility left, was found to have provided information to a player at Fresno State, who was using the information to bet on Freeman through daily fantasy games. Freeman also misled and lied to investigators, the NCAA said. The Fresno State player, Mykell Robinson, was previously declared eligible in September.

The NCAA announced in September it was looking into the activities of 13 players from six schools: Arizona State, Temple, Mississippi Valley State, North Carolina A&T, New Orleans and Eastern Michigan.

Late last month, the NCAA declared three former Eastern Michigan players — Jalin Billingsley, Da’Sean Nelson and Jalen Terry — permanently ineligible for refusing to cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation into potential violations. All three had already exhausted their NCAA eligibility.

This story will be updated.

Nov 7, 2025

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Ralph Russo is a Senior Writer for The Athletic, covering college football. Before joining The Athletic, he spent 20 years as the lead national college football writer for The Associated Press. He also previously worked as the AP’s Mississippi-based sports writer and did a stint with The Denver Post. Ralph is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Fordham University.