1961 NCAA University Division men's basketball gambling scandal

During the 1960–61 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, a major gambling scandal involving a former NBA All-Star basketball player and many members of organized crime syndicates broke through which had ultimately been years in the making. The scandal involved 37 arrests of students from 22 different colleges, as well as at least nine players that received money from fixers or gamblers that were never convicted of crimes, eight go-betweens being prosecuted for their efforts in the scandal (including a couple of former college basketball players and a college football player from the University of Connecticut named William "Bill" Minnerly), and two players being shown to have received bribe offers without reporting them to proper authorities.

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