The president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which has long opposed legal sports betting, says the organization is committed to ensuring integrity, and that includes an absolute prohibition on any athletes gambling on sports.
The membership wants a prohibition of athletes gambling in any sports, period,” NCAA President Mark Emmert sad at the organization’s annual Final Four news conference.
Emmert also said the NCAA is working with professional leagues to promote federal guidelines for states to follow in sports betting regulation.
“We need to try to make sure that we know that everyone is working off consistent data and information because that becomes a source of a lot of bad behavior when you’ve got lots and lots of different data sources,” Emmert said. “Another thing that we’re moving forward on aggressively is we need to have integrity services in place where we can effectively monitor what’s going on in all the various sports books so that, when we see inexplicable behavior on a betting line, we know what’s going on there, and we can act accordingly.”
The NCAA has indefinitely lifted its ban on holding championship events in states where gambling is legal.
