News - Eastern Michigan basketball players were investigated by the NCAA, and their requests for interviews were denied.

Three players involved in a college basketball betting scandal did little to help themselves as they were being investigated. In August, OutKick’s Trey Wallace reported on an ongoing federal investigation into a point-shaving probe in college basketball that involved schools such as Eastern Michigan, Temple, and Fresno State. Just over a month after that initial report, Wallace again wrote for the site that the NCAA acknowledged it was investigating 13 athletes at six different schools connected to the scandal. With a scandal of this magnitude, you would think all the student-athletes investigated would cooperate fully with authorities. But that is not the case. Chris Vannini, a writer for The Athletic, tweeted a report from the NCAA stating the organization had requested interviews with three Eastern Michigan students who were in their final year of eligibility. The players, who remained anonymous, had their phones imaged and then received numerous requests to interview with the investigators. However, they declined every request and even asked authorities to destroy the evidence they had gathered. 'On March 17, 10 days after the school's basketball season concluded, the student-athletes' counsel notified NCAA enforcement staff that the student-athletes would not participate in the process and instructed the vendor to destroy the images,' the NCAA News website wrote. That is obviously not a good look. What becomes of these students remains unclear, as this case is far from over.