NCAA bans six college basketball players after gambling investigation reveals game-fixing at three schools

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4. No wonder ASU basketball looks like a different team this season

Though I think that has more to do with the transfer portal than with the story. I remember Freeman but he didn't stand out like Jayden Quaintance who I see is now with the Kentucky Wildcats.

Arizona State last year did well in the non-conference portion of the season but struggled badly in Big 12 play. One player tanking games could definitely affect the team's ability to win games. Now we have a whole new team with several new players from the transfer portal mostly from mid major schools as well as international. Tough to judge how good they really are, not until the Gonzaga game or the Maui Invitational.

I could see the players from mid majors with not much to play for to easily more get involved but this isn't the first time a player tanking games happened to ASU basketball. It also happened in the 90s but that was before NIL so that was more likely to happen.