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NCAA Announces Ban on Pro Sports Betting Remains

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Publish Date: Nov 22, 2025

Fact checked by: Sara Jane Gamelli

The rule will remain the same.

The NCAA announced late Friday afternoon that after a procedural 30-day period, two-thirds of the organization's Division I schools have voted to rescind a previously approved rule change that would have allowed student-athletes and athletics department staff members to legally participate in sports betting on professional sports only.

The NCAA allows a rule change to be rescinded within 30 days of becoming final if two thirds of the division's members submit an electronic request supporting rescission. That rescission window concluded on Friday, Nov. 21.

Therefore, since sports betting rules are common legislation, the ban on all forms of betting - for sports in which the NCAA sponsors a championship - will remain in place for all three NCAA divisions (I, II, III).

The rule change was supposed to go into effect on Saturday, Nov. 22.

Back in October, the NCAA Division I Administrative Committee announced they had adopted a proposal that would permit student-athletes and athletics department staff members to bet on professional sports.

Temple Findings

Prior to the NCAA's pivot announcement on sports betting, the NCAA Committee on Infractions announced early Friday afternoon three infractions decisions related to sports betting violations in the Temple men's basketball program, just the latest in a long string of gambling scandals over the past few months.

The infractions involved former guard Hysier Miller, a former special assistant to the men's basketball coach Camren Wynter, and former graduate assistant Jaylen Bond.

All three were found to have bet on professional and collegiate sports, and Miller's bets included multiple parlays on Temple men's basketball games. As a result of the sports betting violations involving bets on and against his own team, Miller violated honesty and sportsmanship and sports betting rules, triggering permanent ineligibility. Bond and Wynter violated principles of sportsmanship and honesty by engaging in betting behaviors they knew were against NCAA rules.

Miller had placed 39 bets on Temple men's basketball and an additional three bets against Temple men's basketball, totaling $473 in bets, from Nov. 7, 2022, through March 2, 2024. He never placed a standalone bet on Temple men's basketball games; rather, those bets were always part of parlay bets. Miller interviewed with NCAA enforcement staff and admitted to placing bets on Temple men's basketball games but did not recall betting against the team.

The violations in these cases were uncovered after a sports integrity monitoring service notified the NCAA enforcement staff that there were potential issues concerning Temple men's basketball games. The enforcement staff and Temple opened a collaborative investigation and uncovered sports betting activities by the three involved. They do not appear to have coordinated with each other on the betting activities.

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