NCAA Basketball Betting Fixer Gets Six Years in $3 Million Point-Shaving Scandal

A basketball trainer who recruited college players to deliberately underperform so gamblers could profit by betting against their teams was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison. Jalen Smith, 30, of Charlotte, N.C., became the first defendant sentenced in a sprawling point-shaving scandal involving more than 39 players across at least 17 NCAA Division I teams. He is not to be confused with the NBA player of the same name, who plays for the Chicago Bulls. U.S. District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro also ordered Smith to pay approximately $1.1 million in restitution and forfeit $75,000.