NCAA President Charlie Baker is urging lawmakers in states with legal wagering on sporting events to ban betting on individual player performances. Prop bets allow gamblers to wager on statistics a player will accumulate during a game.
FILE - An official game ball sits on the court during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game between Southern California and UCLA in the semifinals of the Pac-12 tournament Friday, March 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. NCAA President Charlie Baker on Wednesday, March 26, urged lawmakers in states with legal wagering on sporting events to ban betting on individual player performances.FILE - NCAA President Charlie Baker speaks to reporters Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Washington.
The American Gaming Association estimates $2.7 billion will be bet this year on the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments through legal sportsbooks.Baker has said the proliferation of legal sports gambling has increased stress on college athletes. “All that chatter about who’s playing, who’s not playing. Who’s sore, who’s not sore.
“Basically tracks ugly, nasty stuff, that’s being directed at people who are participating in their tournaments and we’d use it the same way,” Baker said in January. “And it can shut it down or basically block it. And in some cases even track back to where it came from.”Russo has been the national college football writer for The Associated Press for two decades. He is a native New Yorker.
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